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Dissertation Information for Ann H. Shimko

NAME:
- Ann H. Shimko
- (Alias) Ann Helmuth Shimko

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Case Western Reserve University (USA) (1977)

ADVISORS:
- Phyllis A. Richmond

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Donald B. Cleveland
- Robert Kennedy
- Miranda Pao

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Medical thermography: a bibliometric approach to a new concept

Abstract: The central problem of this dissertation was to develop a reasonable explanation for the dynamics of a new literature, one which reflects the expansion of a new concept, through the use of bibliometric methods. A methodology was developed to deal with this problem, and involved a matrix of six variables-- authors, papers, journals, topics, time and Language.

Medical thermography, the use of the natural heat patterns of the human body for medical diagnosis and evaluation, was the concept chosen for this study. The size of the associated literature, just under a thousand papers between 1956 and 1974, and this relatively short time span from the initial paper in 1956, as well as the large number of new applications developed for thermography in these years were the primary reasons for this choice.

Data from this literature was analyzed and presented in accordance with the organization of the matrix of variables mentioned above. Among other results, the literature was found to obey both the Bradford and Lotka laws. In addition, tracing of co-authorship networks produced some insight into the sociological aspects of the literature.

However, the major result of this study was concerned with this application of Goffman's epidemic theory. This theory, based on an intermediate host disease epidemic model, was not used on the thermography literature. Instead, because of the usefulness of the notion of an intellectual epidemic to the thermography literature, an alternative model was developed. While a full mathematical treatment of the new model was beyond the scope of this distribution. The new model was supported by logical and empirical sciences. This new model was based on a direct contact disease, and a population with little or no prior ????. And this model might conceivably fit any new literature, before the literature becomes mature enough for the indirect host model to be applicable.

This study invesitigated the statics and dynamics of the literature of thermography, and ????? a now ???? model to describe the dynamics of a new literature.

MPACT Scores for Ann H. Shimko

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