| 1. | It is called citation analysis or, less grandly, footnote counting.
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| 2. | Google's PageRank is based on the principle of citation analysis.
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| 3. | Methods of citation analysis research include qualitative, quantitative and computational approaches.
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| 4. | Henry Small are credited for introducing co-citation analysis in 1973.
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| 5. | Howard White introduced author co-citation analysis in 1981.
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| 6. | But over all, citation analysis works.
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| 7. | Also, citation analysis is perfectly objective.
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| 8. | This means that citation analysis draws on aspects of social network analysis and network science.
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| 9. | Moreover, citation analysis indicates that articles using experimental methods have higher rates of citation.
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| 10. | In 1981 Howard White and Belver Griffith introduced author co-citation analysis ( ACA ).
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