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Cocitations of the work of 42 prominent macroeconomists (past and present) were examined, using multidimensional scaling and clustering techniques. Author clusters, corresponding primarily to current schools of thought in macroeconomics, are arranged along two dimensions of scholarly style; 1) a relative orientation toward quantitative or mathematical models and issues and 2) a continuum of active concern with older scholarship in the field. Social relationships demonstrated by these techniques include joint journal editorship, mentor-student links and institutional affiliation. New to this study is evidence of the cocitation of prominent authors as ‘concept symbols’.
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The three highest cocitation values were added together and the sum divided by two. The resulting number was placed in the diagonal cell. See WHITE and GRIFFITH, note 5–8, op. cit. H. D. WHITE, A Cocitation Map of the Social Indicators Movement,Journal of the American Society for Information Science, in press, 1982. H. D. WHITE, B. C. GRIFFITH, Author Cocitation: A Literature Measure of Intellectual Structure,Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 32 (1981) 163–171 (information science). H. D. WHITE, B. C. GRIFFITH, A Cocitation Map of Authors in Judgment and Decision Research, in, Concepts in:Judgement and Decision Research, B. F. ANDERSON et al. Eds, New York, NY: Praeger, 1981, p. 261–271. H. D. WHITE, B. C. GRIFFITH, Authors as Markers of Intellectual Space,Journal of Documentation (in press).
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McCain, K.W. The author cocitation structure of macroeconomics. Scientometrics 5, 277–289 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02147224
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