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- Title
Assessing obliteration by incorporation in a full-text database: JSTOR, Economics, and the concept of 'bounded rationality'.
- Authors
McCain, Katherine
- Abstract
To evaluate the usefulness of a full-text database as a source for assessing obliteration by incorporation (OBI), 3,707 article records including the catchphrases 'bounded rationality' and/or 'boundedly rational' (connected with the work of H. A. Simon) in the article text were retrieved from JSTOR, a full-text database with broad disciplinary coverage. Two subsets were analyzed-a 10 % systematic sample of all records and a set of all articles in Economics journals (with the addition of the Journal of Economic Theory). A majority of articles in the 10 % sample came from Economics and Management journals, while Psychology was poorly represented. In the 10 % sample, based on the percentage of true implicit citations between 1992 and 2009 in the 80 % of records that had a catchphrase in the body of the article, rather than just in the reference list, annual OBI ranged from 0 to 70 % (mean 33 %) with no discernible trend. The Economics articles showed a narrower range of OBI-fluctuating around 40 % implicit citations over the same time period. In both data sets, a large proportion of indirect citations were to sources that themselves cited a relevant work by Simon. Over 90 % of the articles in both the 10 % sample and the economics journal set would not have been retrieved with a database record search because they lacked the catchphrase in the record fields.
- Subjects
JSTOR (Organization); CITATION analysis; FULL-text databases; ECONOMIC periodicals; PSYCHOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Scientometrics, 2014, Vol 101, Issue 2, p1445
- ISSN
0138-9130
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11192-014-1237-3