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Citation Ootprint Analysis Part I: UK and US Chemical Engineering Academics

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A novel method of displaying the publication and citation characteristics of outputs of researchers using a graphical "footprint" has been developed. Its first application has been to compare the publication and citation characteristics of a small group of top UK, and US academic chemical engineers. The footprint demonstrates the Relationship Factors of publications in a number of related disciplines, as defined by ISI's Journal Citation Reports. The technique has been used to compare both individual academics and each national group as a whole. The results clearly show that US academic chemical engineers are far more interdisciplinary in their output than their UK counterparts. The technique has a number of potential applications, including tracking changes in a discipline over time, tracking individual academics' output over time, and comparing different disciplines for their interdisciplinarity.

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    Gilbert Shama, Klaus Hellgardt & Charles Oppenheim

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Shama, G., Hellgardt, K. & Oppenheim, C. Citation Ootprint Analysis Part I: UK and US Chemical Engineering Academics. Scientometrics 49, 289–305 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010573220173

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