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Fig. 5.20
A landscape view of the hypertext author co-citation network (1989-1998). The height
of each vertical bar represents periodical citation index for each author (© 1999 IEEE)
fully connected area tend to be more generic and generally applicable, whereas those
located in peripheral areas of the Pathfinder network tend to represent more specific
topics.
5.4
HistCite
HistCite is a widely known example of historiography advocated by Eugene
Garfield for decades. HistCite is designed to depict citation connections between
scientific articles over time. It takes bibliographic records from the Web of Science
and generates a variety of tables and historiographic diagrams. In HistCite, the
number of citations of a reference in the entire Web of Science is called Global
Citation Score (GCS), whereas the number of citations of a reference made by
a given set of bibliographic records, also known as a collection, is called Local
Citation Score (LCS). Garfield has maintained a series of analyses using HistCite
on the web.
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In a historiography, published articles are organized according to the time of
their publication. Articles published in the earliest years are placed on the top of
the diagram, whereas more recent articles appear lower in the diagram. If article
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