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Title:      VISUALIZING A DISCIPLINE: A CO-CITATION ANALYSIS OF ISLAMIC FINANCE, 1980 – 2008
Author(s):      Roslina Othman , Mohamad Fauzan Noordin , Siti Fatimah Mohd Tawil
ISBN:      978-972-8924-97-3
Editors:      Hans Weghorn and Pedro Isaías
Year:      2009
Edition:      V II, 2
Keywords:      Co-citation analysis, co-cited authors, co-cited documents, co-cited themes, Islamic Finance
Type:      Short Paper
First Page:      68
Last Page:      72
Language:      English
Cover:      cover          
Full Contents:      click to dowload Download
Paper Abstract:      The main aim of this project was to visualize the discipline of Islamic Finance and its ontology based on co-citation analysis. Research objectives were to visualize the Islamic Finance discipline through author co-citation analysis, document co-citation analysis and themes co-citation analysis, and visualize the relationship between the citing and cited documents within the Islamic Finance discipline. Method for data collection included record creation, mapping of the highly cited authors, documents and themes for co-citation analysis, and mapping of the documents and themes in for visualizing the research fronts and research areas, and the computation of co-citation strength based on improved mathematical model. Ontology of Islamic finance could be derived from the co-cited themes. Research fronts in Islamic finance strongly focused on Riba (interest), a contribution from Islamic economics. Highly co-cited authors were also those from the Islamic economics discipline.
   

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