An exploration of scientific structure research based on author cross-citation analysis——taking scientometrics as an example

As we know,citation analysis is the main method in the analysis of scientific structure and evolution,in which the author citation analysis has broad application in the study of intellectual structure,scientific communication and disciplines' development trend.Generally speaking,citation relationship among authors can be divided into 3 types: co-citation,coupling and cross-citation.Among them,the author co-citation analysis and author coupling analysis both produced a degree of influences in discussion of subject structure and its research status and trends.However,current study about author cross-citation more focused on the description of citation behavior itself based on citation identity and citation image,but there was no too much involved in the aspects of knowledge exchange,authors study relevance and academic community discovering behind author citation relationship.The study will therefore take the chance to further explore the author cross-citation relationship with core authors in Scientometrics as study object in order to provide reference for development of Scientometrics and in-depth application of citation analysis and in-depth application in scientific structure research of citation analysis.