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4.1.2.06 The ‘minor variations in title’ described by Harzing and van der Wal are mostly<br />

identified a nd solved with <strong>the</strong> manual processing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> da ta. F ur<strong>the</strong>rmore <strong>the</strong> issue <strong>of</strong> ‘first<br />

author name only’ is less that significant in this research because <strong>the</strong> gravitas <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> article<br />

is more important than <strong>the</strong> gravitas <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> author(s) per se. The use <strong>of</strong> first author name<br />

only is an indexing measure <strong>of</strong> convenience.<br />

4.1.2.07 For want <strong>of</strong> a better description, in this study, <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science episteme is<br />

only a portal. It provides an entry point to access <strong>the</strong> 87,060 citations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>aliran</strong><br />

provided by <strong>the</strong> 2,161 journals that <strong>the</strong> portal contains. By not using <strong>the</strong> journals<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves, but <strong>the</strong> citations within <strong>the</strong> journal <strong>the</strong>re is, in a sense, a form <strong>of</strong> ‘double<br />

redundancy’ (to use a term from engineering remote control /SCADA systems) where <strong>the</strong><br />

limitations and exclus ions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science episteme have a lesser impact on <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>aliran</strong> itself.<br />

4.1.2.08 The <strong>aliran</strong> is protected from <strong>the</strong> incompleteness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science episteme<br />

as discussed in 4.1.2.03 in that while, for example, <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science listings <strong>of</strong><br />

‘ Entrepreneurship – Theory and Practice’ start from ‘Volume: 28 Issue: 2 2003’ <strong>the</strong>re<br />

are 21 citations relating to earlier volumes <strong>of</strong> this journal. Also <strong>the</strong>re are 9 citations<br />

relating to <strong>the</strong> Journal <strong>of</strong> Business Venturing, volume 1 that are not included in Web <strong>of</strong><br />

Science journals but appear in my <strong>aliran</strong>.<br />

4.1.3 Data collection summary – <strong>the</strong> ‘2161’ portal.<br />

4.1.3.00 This section looks in more detail at <strong>the</strong> 2,161 episteme from <strong>the</strong> Web <strong>of</strong> Science<br />

database and starts to draw some discussion topics on <strong>the</strong> development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> episteme.<br />

4.1.3.01 The 2,161 articles sourced from a total <strong>of</strong> 627 Web <strong>of</strong> Science episteme journals<br />

and produced 87,060 citations. What was apparent was that while <strong>the</strong>re were large<br />

numbers <strong>of</strong> citations to a reasonably large number <strong>of</strong> journals, <strong>the</strong> data tended to skew in<br />

favour <strong>of</strong> a small number <strong>of</strong> journals which may be considered significant to<br />

<strong>entrepreneurship</strong>.<br />

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