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Scientific and technical research is in a state of continuous flux. Sectors once considered to be strategic become obsolete, while new and promising fields appear. There are bottlenecks, points of obligatory passage, obsolescent sectors, areas of growth and areas of fusion between previously separate domains of research, while external factors are of frequent importance. The importance of the analysis of the dynamics of science and technology is scarcely in doubt and it has, accordingly, attracted much interest.
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Co-citation is far from being the only method used to measure science. For an indication of the range of possibilities see, e.g., Elkana et al. (1978), Ellis, Hepburn and Oppenheim (1978), Freeman (1983), Garfield (1979), Gilbert and Woolgar (1974), Machlup (1972), Menard (1971), Narin et al. (1976), National Science Board, Science Indicators (1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981), OECD (1982), Pavitt (1978, 1982), Schmookler (1966), Small (1977), Price (1963) and the journal Scientometrics.
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© 1986 Michel Callon, John Law and Arie Rip
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Callon, M., Law, J., Rip, A. (1986). Qualitative Scientometrics. In: Callon, M., Law, J., Rip, A. (eds) Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07408-2_7
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