Citation analysis has been used for the study of the relationship between citing and cited documents. Bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis are two major technique of grouping articles and the cluster can be interpreted as a scientific speci...
Citation analysis has been used for the study of the relationship between citing and cited documents. Bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis are two major technique of grouping articles and the cluster can be interpreted as a scientific specialty.
Many studies have used citation frequency to identifying good quality of journals, authors and documents, but the validity of citation remains. In applying the theory of Markov Chain, the defects of citation analysis as a quality measure can be improved. The generation of citation can be made and the probability that each author/journal is going to be cited after long strings of citation can be obtained. The potential ability to be cited can be identified and can be used as a quality measure. This can be applied to the bibliographic coupling cluster or co-citation cluster. Yet, the validity of citation analysis does not confirmed, the citation study should aware of the limitation. To apply multiple method can strengthen the studies of citation analysis.