Teaching UGC NET Mock Test Series 2025 (Paper 1 & 2) Library Science Research Methodology Metric Studies in LIS
Assertion (A): Compared with co-citation and bibliographic coupling, direct citations(sometimes referred to as cross citations) offer a more direct indication of the relatedness of publications:
Reason (R): Nevertheless, in the Literature on Visualizing bibliometric networks, it is relatively uncommon to work with direct citations, as the use of direct citations often leads to very sparse networks.
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(A) is true but (R) is false.
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(A) and (R) both are false.
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(A) is false but (R) is true.
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(A) and (R) both are true.