Co-citation analysis of literature in e-science and e-infrastructures

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this recordAdvances in computer networking, storage technologies and high-performance computing are helping global communities of researchers to address increasingly ambitious problems in Science collaboratively. EScience is the “science of this age”; it is realized through collaborative scientific enquiry which requires the utilization of non-trivial amounts of computing resources and massive data sets. Core to this is the integrated set of technologies collectively known as e-Infrastructures. In this paper, we explore the e-Science and the eInfrastructure knowledge base through co-citation analysis of existing literature. The dataset for this analysis is downloaded from the ISI Web of Science and includes over 12,000 articles. We identify prominent articles, authors and articles with citation bursts. The detection of research clusters and the underlying seminal papers provide further insights. Our analysis is an important source of reference for academics, researchers and students starting research in this field

Charting the reach and contribution of IMP literature in other disciplines: A bibliometric analysis

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this recordThe acknowledgement of a research tradition by other disciplines shows its contribution to the development of the broader body of scientific knowledge. This paper investigates the contribution of IMP (Industrial Marketing and Purchasing) research to broader research disciplines by analyzing how researchers within and beyond IMP have cited core IMP articles. First, through quantitative bibliometric analysis, the paper identifies the diffusion to other research disciplines. Thereafter, through qualitative analysis, the impact of the IMP perspective is captured to understand how strong these imprints are. The analyses show that IMP research has been noticed among a range of adjacent research disciplines. However, the use of IMP references has generally been rudimentary, and without a deeper understanding of the IMP ontology, meaning that IMP still has some “weak ties” to the other disciplines. Establishing IMP's contribution through enduring imprints would need further engagement with researchers from other research disciplines and publications in top journals. The paper contributes empirically with how the IMP perspective has spread beyond the IMP Group and theoretically by adding insight into how research ideas travel and transform to other disciplines