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Duncan Hewitt reflects on a year of contradiction in China, where control and openness co-exist

The purpose of this paper is to apply and evaluate the bibliometric method Bradfordizing for information retrieval (IR) experiments. Bradfordizing is used for generating core document sets for subject-specific questions and to re-order result sets. The method will be applied and tested in a controlled scenario of scientific literature databases from social and political sciences, economics, psychology and medical science and 164 standardized IR topics. The IR tests show that relevance distributions after re-ranking improve at a significant level if articles in the core are compared with articles in the succeeding zones.

brian rotman is a Humanities Distinguished Professor at the Ohio State University in the Department of Comparative Studies. His writings include numerous pieces in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books, a number of stage plays, five published books, among which are Signifying Nothing: the Semiotics of Zero and Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine, both from Stanford University Press, and a forthcoming book Becoming beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being to be published by Duke University Press.