Class information for:
Level 1: CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING//SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY//SYSTEMS PRACTICE

Basic class information
Class id #P Avg. number of
references		 Database coverage
of references
5295 1644 36.8 24%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Hierarchy of classes
The table includes all classes above and classes immediately below the current class.


Cluster id Level Cluster label #P
1 4 ECONOMICS//EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH//PSYCHOL 3876184
676 3       SYSTEM DYNAMICS REVIEW//SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE//SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH 9245
2415 2             SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE//SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH//SYSTEMS PRACTICE 4161
5295 1                   CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING//SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY//SYSTEMS PRACTICE 1644

Terms with highest relevance score


rank Term termType Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING authKW 1220063 5% 83% 79
2 SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY authKW 960546 5% 63% 82
3 SYSTEMS PRACTICE journal 844940 6% 50% 91
4 SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH journal 844257 10% 28% 160
5 PROBLEM STRUCTURING METHODS authKW 791886 3% 84% 51
6 PHILOSOPHY OF OR authKW 688976 2% 95% 39
7 SOFT OR authKW 647905 3% 81% 43
8 PRACTICE OF OR authKW 487959 4% 44% 60
9 JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY journal 464537 21% 7% 348
10 PROBLEM STRUCTURING authKW 409475 3% 53% 42

Web of Science journal categories


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with term
in class
1 Management 157829 67% 1% 1103
2 Operations Research & Management Science 84441 51% 1% 841
3 Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary 5293 10% 0% 157
4 Information Science & Library Science 668 3% 0% 56
5 Ergonomics 528 2% 0% 29
6 Computer Science, Cybernetics 389 2% 0% 25
7 Computer Science, Information Systems 255 4% 0% 63
8 Business 160 2% 0% 35
9 Engineering, Industrial 111 2% 0% 28
10 Computer Science, Software Engineering 76 2% 0% 34

Address terms


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 SYST STUDIES 225210 2% 35% 35
2 BUSINESS STRATEGY OPERAT 55716 0% 100% 3
3 INVEST SISTEMOL INTERPRETAT 55716 0% 100% 3
4 GRP MOBIL LOGIST TRANSPORT TECHNOL MOBI 37144 0% 100% 2
5 INTEGRATED SYST MANAGEMENT 37144 0% 100% 2
6 NARRAT STUDIES 37144 0% 100% 2
7 SISTEMAS INTERPRETAT 37144 0% 100% 2
8 VAKGRP MILIEU TECHNOL TECHNOL MANAGEMENT 37144 0% 100% 2
9 OPERAT SYST GRP 33013 0% 44% 4
10 ADULT EDUC YOUTH DEV 27855 0% 50% 3

Journals


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class
1 SYSTEMS PRACTICE 844940 6% 50% 91
2 SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH 844257 10% 28% 160
3 JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY 464537 21% 7% 348
4 SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE 320068 7% 14% 121
5 INTERFACES 278170 10% 9% 163
6 OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 40269 4% 3% 71
7 SYSTEMS RESEARCH 38436 1% 9% 24
8 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH 33062 10% 1% 162
9 INFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL 8881 1% 3% 15
10 GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION 6500 1% 2% 16

Author Key Words


Rank Term Chi square Shr. of publ. in
class containing
term		 Class's shr. of
term's tot. occurrences		 #P with
term in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING 1220063 5% 83% 79 Search CRITICAL+SYSTEMS+THINKING Search CRITICAL+SYSTEMS+THINKING
2 SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY 960546 5% 63% 82 Search SOFT+SYSTEMS+METHODOLOGY Search SOFT+SYSTEMS+METHODOLOGY
3 PROBLEM STRUCTURING METHODS 791886 3% 84% 51 Search PROBLEM+STRUCTURING+METHODS Search PROBLEM+STRUCTURING+METHODS
4 PHILOSOPHY OF OR 688976 2% 95% 39 Search PHILOSOPHY+OF+OR Search PHILOSOPHY+OF+OR
5 SOFT OR 647905 3% 81% 43 Search SOFT+OR Search SOFT+OR
6 PRACTICE OF OR 487959 4% 44% 60 Search PRACTICE+OF+OR Search PRACTICE+OF+OR
7 PROBLEM STRUCTURING 409475 3% 53% 42 Search PROBLEM+STRUCTURING Search PROBLEM+STRUCTURING
8 PROCESS OF OR 392982 1% 92% 23 Search PROCESS+OF+OR Search PROCESS+OF+OR
9 MULTIMETHODOLOGY 364218 2% 63% 31 Search MULTIMETHODOLOGY Search MULTIMETHODOLOGY
10 TOTAL SYSTEMS INTERVENTION 334298 1% 100% 18 Search TOTAL+SYSTEMS+INTERVENTION Search TOTAL+SYSTEMS+INTERVENTION

Core articles
The table includes core articles in the class. The following variables is taken into account for the relevance score of an article in a cluster c:
(1) Number of references referring to publications in the class.
(2) Share of total number of active references referring to publications in the class.
(3) Age of the article. New articles get higher score than old articles.
(4) Citation rate, normalized to year.


Rank Reference # ref.
in cl.		 Shr. of ref. in
cl.		 Citations
1 DE WATER, HV , SCHINKEL, M , ROZIER, R , (2007) FIELDS OF APPLICATION OF SSM: A CATEGORIZATION OF PUBLICATIONS.JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY. VOL. 58. ISSUE 3. P. 271-287 79 69% 8
2 MINGERS, J , ROSENHEAD, J , (2004) PROBLEM STRUCTURING METHODS IN ACTION.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. VOL. 152. ISSUE 3. P. 530 -554 62 74% 163
3 WHITE, L , (2016) BEHAVIOURAL OPERATIONAL RESEARCH: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOUR IN OR INTERVENTIONS.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. VOL. 249. ISSUE 3. P. 827 -841 65 54% 1
4 ORMEROD, RJ , ULRICH, W , (2013) OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND ETHICS: A LITERATURE REVIEW.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. VOL. 228. ISSUE 2. P. 291 -307 64 59% 10
5 CHAMPION, D , WILSON, JM , (2010) THE IMPACT OF CONTINGENCY FACTORS ON VALIDATION OF PROBLEM STRUCTURING METHODS.JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY. VOL. 61. ISSUE 9. P. 1420 -1431 39 91% 5
6 BROCKLESBY, J , (2016) THE WHAT, THE WHY AND THE HOW OF BEHAVIOURAL OPERATIONAL RESEARCH-AN INVITATION TO POTENTIAL SCEPTICS.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. VOL. 249. ISSUE 3. P. 796 -805 34 71% 4
7 VELEZ-CASTIBLANCO, J , BROCKLESBY, J , MIDGLEY, G , (2016) BOUNDARY GAMES: HOW TEAMS OF OR PRACTITIONERS EXPLORE THE BOUNDARIES OF INTERVENTION.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. VOL. 249. ISSUE 3. P. 968 -982 34 81% 1
8 HENAO, F , FRANCO, LA , (2016) UNPACKING MULTIMETHODOLOGY: IMPACTS OF A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION.EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH. VOL. 253. ISSUE 3. P. 681 -696 35 76% 1
9 LOWE, D , MARTINGALE, L , YEARWORTH, M , (2016) GUIDING INTERVENTIONS IN A MULTI-ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT: COMBINING THE VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL AND HIERARCHICAL PROCESS MODELLING FOR USE AS A PROBLEM STRUCTURING METHOD.JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY. VOL. 67. ISSUE 12. P. 1481 -1495 35 78% 0
10 ULRICH, W , (2012) OPERATIONAL RESEARCH AND CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING-AN INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE PART 1: OR AS APPLIED SYSTEMS THINKING.JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY. VOL. 63. ISSUE 9. P. 1228 -1247 26 96% 11

Classes with closest relation at Level 1


Rank Class id link
1 24206 VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL//KYBERNETES//CREAT COHERENT CHANGE KNOWLEDGE
2 26841 SYSTEMIC PRACTICE AND ACTION RESEARCH//INTERACTIVE MANAGEMENT//SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
3 23017 OR IN GREECE//BEEDI MAKING//CASE EXERCISES
4 8460 SYSTEM DYNAMICS REVIEW//SYSTEM DYNAMICS//SYST DYNAM GRP
5 30842 SYSTEMS RESEARCH//INQUIRING SYSTEMS//DESIGN OF INQUIRING SYSTEM
6 27671 CHAORDIC SYSTEMS THINKING//OPEN SYSTEMS THINKING//OPEN SYSTEMS THEORY
7 18178 FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS//FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS FCMS//FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPPING
8 14624 IS RESEARCH//DESIGN SCIENCE RESEARCH//REFERENCE DISCIPLINE
9 15344 SIMULATION//VISUAL INTERACTIVE SIMULATION//ACTIVITY CYCLE DIAGRAM ACD
10 37344 ANGEWANDTE INFORMATIK//ACTION SELECTION IN PHILOSOPHY AND NEUROSCIENCE//ADAPTATION AND COMPUTATION OF ACTION SELECTION

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