Describing the Structure of a Research Literature: Spatial Diffusion Modelling in Geography

A C Gatrell
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A C Gatrell: Department of Geography, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, England

Environment and Planning B, 1984, vol. 11, issue 1, 29-45

Abstract: A description of the structure of research specialities requires the definition of a series of sets and relations. A set of papers concerned with spatial diffusion modelling is defined, and the structure of the citation relation defined on that set is explored. A detailed reading of the texts of the papers allows us to extract a series of ‘terms’ (concepts, techniques, and so on), and problems of structuring these in a hierarchical scheme are discussed. The relation of papers to terms is then analysed for a few of the early papers in the literature. Citations may be thought of as traffic on the backcloth.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1068/b110029

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