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`authors were left as isolates. This produced a total of 17 clusters and 15 isolates. Table
2 indicates the membership in each cluster. A description of each cluster has been
assigned paranthetically. Additionally, the name of the “key author” in each cluster is
italicized; this is the alphabetically prior author in the most-cited pair within the cluster;
the key author is a shorthand label for the members of a cited author cluster.
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Blockmodeling of the citation matrix subset. The 121x77 citing article-by-most-
cocited author citation matrix was blockmodeled using Ucinet. The image matrix was
dichotomized so that those cells with a density greater than or equal to the matrix mean
of .11 (s=.31) were coded as 1 and all others coded as 0. Figure 1 shows the blockmodel
with descriptive labels and other information supplied in the margins.
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Findings
This section describes the membership of the citer blocks and their bibliometric
features, in terms of their (a) subsequent citation rates, (b) publication venues, (c) title
word characteristics, and (d) patterns of reference to cited author blocks. In this section,
the significance of the observed citation patterns begins to emerge, as the cognitive foci
of work making use of “Ferment in the Field” become clearer. In general, the four most
important citation coupling clusters (i.e., groups of citing articles linked by their shared
Convention