Measuring the Relationship among Japanese Academic Societies with the Cross Citations Found in Their Papers, and Its Practicability

Abstract

This study is based on the citation data extracted from the Citation Database for Japanese Papers (CJP), produced by the National Institute of Informatics (NII). Institute of Electronics, Information & Communications Engineers (IEICE) and other 13 academic societies which have strong citing or cited relations with each other have been chosen for the analysis. Converting scheme of the raw citation counts into dissimilarity data, and statistical analyses by multidimensional scaling method to measure relationship among the societies are described. The potentiality of bibliometric research on the CJP database for practical applications will also be discussed.