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4.1 Interpretation – Journals from the episteme
4.1.1 Preliminary observations
4.1.2 Double redundancy in my data collection process
4.1.3 Data collection summary – the 2,161 portal
4.1.4 Suggestions for ontologies
4.1.00 Five numbers are significant in the following sections. The total number of
journals from the database search in the Web of Science is 627. The number 2,161 is the
number of articles that constitutes the episteme; and 87,060 being the aliran which is the
total citation references produced by the episteme. From which 789 articles and texts
received ten citations or more. Of those articles 476 received more than fourteen citations
each.
4.1.01 The following sections firstly look at some of my preliminary observations
from the epistemic analysis. I then suggest that, due to a built in double redundancy in my
search, the choice of episteme may not be too significant and it is the aliran produced by
the episteme that is more significant. Some of the problems faced with my use of Web of
Science as the source of the episteme may be ameliorated by the aliran.
4.1.03 I then continue to look at the 2,161 portal in more detail, including a discussion on
citations and citation indexing and later try to identify ontologies from this aliran.
4.1.1 Preliminary observations
4.1.1.01 As graphics 3a and 3b indicate, the number of articles in the episteme and in
particular the number of citations (even if only to those Web of Science listed journals) has
increased markedly over the last 10-15 years. My search prod uced 2,161 articles which as
per the above graphic indicate that it is a fairly young episteme but one that appears, based
upon Graphic 3a to have grown rapidly, particularly in the last ten years.. The relative
recency of the majority of the articles could well support Low’s [2001] content ion that the
discipline is still in its adolescence.
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