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Knowl. Inf. Syst. 6 (2004), S. 664-678
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Small, H.: Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. In:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science 24 (1973), Nr. 4, S. 265-269
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A new form of document coupling called co-citation is defined as the frequency with which two documents are cited together. The co-citation frequency of two scientific papers can be determined by comparing lists of citing documents in the Science Citation Index and counting identical entries. Networks of co-cited papers can be generated for specific scientific specialties, and an example is drawn from the literature of particle physics. Co-citation patterns are found to differ significantly from bibliographic coupling patterns, but to agree generally with patterns of direct citation. Clusters of co-cited papers provide a new way to study the specialty structure of science. They may provide a new approach to indexing and to the creation of SDI profiles.