HR: 1340h
AN: G33A-0913    [Abstracts]
TI: Geodesy, a Bibliometric Approach for 2000-2006
AU: * VAZQUEZ, G
EM: vazquez.41@osu.edu
AF: AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF SINALOA EARTH SCIENCE SCHOOL, CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA, CULIACAN, SIN 80000, Mexico
AU: LANDEROS, C F
EM: landeros@uas.uasnet.mx
AF: AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF SINALOA EARTH SCIENCE SCHOOL, CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA, CULIACAN, SIN 80000, Mexico
AU: LANDEROS, C F
EM: landeros@uas.uasnet.mx
AF: RESEARCH CENTER JUSTO SIERRA, SURUTATO, BADIRAGUATO, SURUTATO, SIN 8000, Mexico
AB: In recent years, bibliometric science has been frequently applied in the development and evaluation of scientific research. This work presents a bibliometric analysis for the research work performed in the field of geodesy "science of the measurement and mapping of the earth surface including its external gravity field". The objective of this work is to present a complete overview of the generated research on this field to assemble and study the most important publications occurred during the past seven years. The analysis was performed including the SCOPUS and WEB OF SCIENCE databases for all the geodetic scientific articles published between 2000 and 2006. The search profile was designed considering a strategy to seek for titles and article descriptors using the terms geodesy and geodetic and some other terms associated with the topics: geodetic surfaces, vertical measurements, reference systems and frames, modern space-geodetic techniques and satellite missions. Some preliminary results had been achieved specifically Bradford law of distribution for journals and education institutes, and Lotka's law for authors that also includes the cooperation between countries in terms of writing together scientific articles. In the particular case of distributions, the model suggested by Egghe (2002) was adopted for determining the cores.
DE: 0840 Evaluation and assessment
DE: 0850 Geoscience education research
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Geodesy [G]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting