Fifty years of measurement and scaling in the Dutch social sciences
作者:
P. G. M. Heijden,
K. Sijtsma,
期刊:
Statistica Neerlandica
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 50,
issue 1
页码: 111-135
ISSN:0039-0402
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9574.1996.tb01483.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: bibliometric analysis;history of statistics;measurement;psychometrics;scaling
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
It is evident from recent issues of journals like Psychometrika and Applied Psychological Measurement that the Dutch contribution to the development of the area of measurement and scaling is considerable. In the first part of this paper, we try to answer the question how this could happen. In the early development De Groot in Amsterdam and Van de Geer in Leiden created an academic climate that made it possible for many researchers to develop their skills. Some other possible reasons are sketched for the flourishing of this area in the Netherlands, but it is difficult to assess which reasons were most important. In the second part of the paper, we analyze the international impact of the Dutch contribution by a citation analysis in four fields of measurement and scaling: factor analysis, test theory including item response theory, latent class analysis, and optimal scaling and multidimensional scaling. It appears that Dutch researchers not only publish a lot, but also that the impact of their publications is at the same level as publications produced world‐wid
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