Matching of citations between non‐standardized databases

E. J. Yannakoudakis, F. H. Ayres and J. A. W. Huggill

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990, vol. 41, issue 8, 599-610

Abstract: The work presents the results of a novel approach to automatic matching and linkage of citations between nonstandardized databases, that is, databases which contain untagged attributes. In order to provide a reasonably high incidence of overlap and therefore fertile ground for citation‐matching, a databank was created following on‐line retrievals from different databases but on the same subject area. Matching was achieved through coding of pertinent attributes and the derivation of fixed‐length retrieval keys. A total of 14 different coding techniques were applied and their effectiveness was measured in terms of their efficiency in retrieval of ‘duplicates’ with minimal false hits, their reliability in retrieving all matching citations known to be present, and their performance relative to the ideal. © 1990 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1990
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199012)41:83.0.CO;2-#

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jamest:v:41:y:1990:i:8:p:599-610

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-4571

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of the American Society for Information Science from Association for Information Science & Technology
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().