The ability to automatically create historiographs is a unique feature of HistCite. A historiograph is a network diagram of the papers in your Web of Science (WoS) search and their relationships to each other.
Historiographs are based on the citation relationships between the papers in your WoS bibliography. In the sample historiograph, each paper in the bibliography is represented by a circle. The size of these symbols varies to reflect how many times a given paper is cited by other papers in the collection. The bigger the circle, the more the paper was cited. The citation relationships between papers are depicted by connecting lines with arrowheads that show who cited whom. The symbols are arranged over a timeline of the publication dates of the papers. By changing the time frame of the analysis, the resulting historiograph can form a snapshot of a specific period or an in-depth look at the total history of a subject.
Once you have the historiograph for your bibliography, it is easy to see your subject area’s key publication events, their chronology, and their relative influence. Until HistCite, the only way to create a historiograph was through an enormous amount of clerical labor.
------------------------
HISTCITE TECHNICAL SUPPORT
|
What is a Historiograph
Posted - 10/15/2007 : 16:20:51
