Strategic Citation: A Reassessment

Citation analysis cannot legitimate the strategic selection of excellence

Tobias Opthof 1,2 & Loet Leydesdorff 3 Abstract In reaction to a previous critique (Opthof & Leydesdorff, 2010), the Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in Leiden proposed to change their old “crown” indicator in citation analysis into a new one. Waltman et al. (2011a) argue that this change does not affect rankings at various aggregated levels. However, CWTS data is not publicly a...

A Reassessment

Citation, citation, citation.

An Examination of the Strategic Alignment Literature in IS through a Co-Citation Analysis

In this article we study the diffusion of Henderson and Venkatraman’s strategic alignment model (SAM) through the analysis of their 1993 seminal article’s legacy. We investigate all works that cite this article and show that this corpus constitutes a homogeneous research field that does not question the basic assumptions of the original model. We investigate the intellectual structure of this f...

Exploring the Knowledge Network of Strategic Alliance Research: A Co-citation Analysis

This study is to describe the knowledge network of strategic alliance studies embedded in the leading articles and to explore the key research themes in this field between 1999 and 2008. A total of 521 articles with 21,493 cited references were extracted from the Social Science Citation Index and the Science Citation Index. By using bibliometric methods, the citation and co-citation counts obta...