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using ‘entrepreneur’ also gave a volume <strong>of</strong> citations that was larger than I wanted to<br />

handle.<br />

3.2.2.08 The above search parameters gave a search result <strong>of</strong> 2,161 articles.<br />

3.2.2.09 One <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> first mistakes I made was to follow <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science figure<br />

that indicated <strong>the</strong>se articles contained 13,000 citations. (<strong>the</strong> spread is shown in Graphic 3b)<br />

I felt that this was a manageable number <strong>of</strong> citations to analyse. However this is a<br />

limitation on <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science citation counts, as it only refers to citations to articles<br />

contained in <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science list <strong>of</strong> journals. It does not account for <strong>the</strong> citations<br />

external to <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science database. So ra<strong>the</strong>r than <strong>the</strong>re being 13,000 citations to<br />

analyse <strong>the</strong> final figure came to 87,060. I attribute this to my inexperience as a researcher<br />

and bli<strong>the</strong>ly continued with my citation analysis, expecting to be analysing 13,000 citations<br />

and only when my citation count surpassed this figure did I begin to realise <strong>the</strong> problem. I<br />

gained experience in a ra<strong>the</strong>r steep, and time consuming, learning curve.<br />

Graphic<br />

3b<br />

Bar chart <strong>of</strong> list <strong>of</strong> citations from <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science database 1956 –<br />

2006. Total 13,000 citations.<br />

3.2.2.10 These two figures, 13,000 and 87,060, provide a useful tool to define <strong>the</strong><br />

difference between <strong>the</strong> episteme and <strong>the</strong> <strong>aliran</strong>. The Web <strong>of</strong> Science episteme is <strong>the</strong><br />

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