Journal of Documentation: Volume 35 Issue 4

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THE INFLUENCE OF THE TYPE OF SOURCES USED ON THE RESULTS OF CITATION ANALYSES

MAURICE B. LINE

Most citation analyses are based on references taken from two or three source journals. There are good theoretical reasons for believing that these may not be representative of…

USING PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL WITHOUT RELEVANCE INFORMATION

W.B. CROFT, D.J. HARPER

Most probabilistic retrieval models incorporate information about the occurrence of index terms in relevant and non‐relevant documents. In this paper we consider the situation…

DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL EXPERIMENTS USING INDEXING VOCABULARIES OF VARYING SIZE. II. HASHING, TRUNCATION, DIGRAM AND TRIGRAM ENCODING OF INDEX TERMS

PETER WILLETT

This paper describes the use of fixed‐length character strings for controlling the size of indexing vocabularies in reference retrieval systems. Experiments with the Cranfield…

DOCUMENTATION NOTE: ASSIGNING DATES TO ARTICLES FROM DATELESS JOURNALS

DONALD A. WINDSOR

Many bibliometric investigations study changes in different variables as a function of time, where the unit of time is the year of publication.

PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION: LEGIBILITY STUDIES: THEIR RELEVANCE TO PRESENT‐DAY DOCUMENTATION METHODS

LINDA REYNOLDS

In the past, legibility research has been mainly concerned with the conventionally typeset and printed word. ‘Printed’ materials are now produced by a variety of other methods…

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Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden