CRANV2
Aslib Cranfield Research Project: Factors Determining the Performance of Indexing Systems: Volume 2
Citation indexing and bibliographic coupling
chapter
Cyril Cleverdon
Michael Keen
Cranfield
An investigation supported by a grant to Aslib by the National Science Foundation.
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FIGURE 7.2T
Index Language Citation Indexing and Bibliographic Coupling
Document Relevance 1-4
Number of Documents in Collection 1400
Number of Questions 42 (Subset 2 Aerodynamics)
Number of Relevant Documents 198
Generality Number 3.4
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Coupling Documents Recall Precision Fallout
Strength
1
2
3
4
5
6
7+
Retrieved
Rel. Non -rel.
131 5495*
113 1446
76 592
56 257
41 135
29 70
23 38
R at io
66.1%
56.3%
38.2%
28.1%
20.6%
14.6%
11.6%
Ratio
2.3%*
7.2%
11.47°
17.9%
23.3%
29.3%
37.7%
Ratio
9. 345%*
2.459%
i. 0077o
0.437%
0.2307°
0. 119%
0. 065%
FIGURE 7.3T
Index Language Citation Indexing and Bibliographic Coupling
Document Relevance 1-4
Number of Documents in Collection 1400
Number of Questions 42 (Structures)
Number of Relevant Questions 252
Generality Number 4.3
Coupling
Strength
l.
2
3
4
5
6
7+
Documents
Retrieved
Rel. Non -rel.
179 5962*
138 1569
90 541
51 140
36 93
31 54
25 28
Recall
Ratio
71.0%
54.8%
35.7%
20. {%
14.3%
12.3%
9.970
Precision
Ratio
2.9%*
8.1%
14.3%
26.7%
27.9%
36.5%
47. 270
Fallout
Ratio
10. 684%*
2.668%
0. 920%
0. 238%
0. 193%
0.09270
0.047%