Positioning HCI: journals, descriptors and parent disciplines

P Valero; A Monk

Positioning HCI: journals, descriptors and parent disciplines

P Valero, A Monk

Psychology

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Abstract

The first part of this paper cautions against the injudicious use of citation data to rank journals. The second and main part presents a correspondence;analysis of the descriptors assigned by abstractors to papers in five HCI, two human factors and three psychology journals. This analysis makes it possible to position the journals in a space of descriptors. The HCI journals form a cluster distinct from the psychology and human factors journals, suggesting HCI has now separated from its parent disciplines. Further, it is possible to position individual journals, for example, Behaviour & Information Technology is identified as an HCI journal with a leaning towards human factors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	39
Number of pages	7
Journal	Behaviour & Information Technology
Volume	17
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 1998

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