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AuthorMap
AuthorMap is a visualization prototype for Author Co-citation Analysis and for retrieval. It explores author relationships through co-citation patterns. The assumption is that if two authors are often cited together by many other authors, these two authors likely have common intellectual interest in their research and writing. When many related authors' pair-wise co-citation patterns are considered, a map of a subject domain can be generated where authors on the map represent ideas or subtopics as well as their relationships. AuthorMap currently attaches to ISI Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), 1988-1997, about 1.26 million records.
When an author search is conducted, AuthorMap generates a list of 25 authors co-cited most often with the given author. The user then can choose to interact with two types of maps that visualize the author co-citation relationships. One map is based on Kohone's self-organizing feature map (SOM), the other is based on Path Finder Network(PFNET). Both maps are generated within seconds. Both maps allow the user to drag the names on the maps and drop them to a search box to activate an automatic search by the underlying search engine. The following is an example author map for the creator of citation indexing, "E.Garfield."
Publications:
- IPM2002
Lin, X.; White, H. D.; & Buzydlowski, J. (in press). Real-time author co-citation mapping for online searching. Papers accepted by the International Journal of Information Processing & Management.
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- SSGRR2001
Lin, X, White, H. D.; & Buzydlowski, J.(2001). Associative Searching and Visualization. SSGRR 2001, International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet. (August 6-12, L’Aquila, Italy).
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- JCDL'2001
Buzydlowski, J.; White, H. D.; & Lin, X. (2001). Co-Cited Author Analysis as an Interface for Digital Libraries. JCDL Workshop on Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries (Roanoke, VA, June 24 - 28, 2001).
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- ACH/ALLC2001
White, H. D.; Lin, X.; & Buzydlowski, J. (2001). Co-cited author maps as real-time interfaces for Web-based document retrieval in the humanities. The Joint Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACH / ALLC 2001). pp.127-129.
- National ONline'2001
Lin, X.; White, H. D.; & Buzydlowski, J. (2001). AuthorMap: Instant Author Co-Citation Mapping for Online Searching. Proceedings of National Online 2001 (New York, May 15-17, 2001) pp. 233 - 241.