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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Vol. 46, No. 5, September 1993 ARTICLES Grazing Management 378 Viewpoint: “Invisible colleges” and citation clusters ln stocking rate research by Richard H. Hart 383 Research Observation: Chemical repellants to reduce grazing intensity on reclaimed sites by Terrance J. Osko, Robert T. Hardin, and Bruce A. Young Plant-Animal Inieracrion 387 Sites, mowing, 2,4-D, and seasons affect bitterbrush values by Vincent M. Kituku, Jeff Powell, and Richard A. Olson 394 Factors influencing pine needle consumption by grazing cattle during winter by James A. Pfister and Don C. Adams 399 Nutritional quality of browse after brush management on cross timbers rangeland by Roderick B. Soper, Robert L. Lochmiller, David M. Leslie, Jr., and David M. Engle 410 Forage value of native and introduced browse species in Tanzania by Rashid B.R. Msangi and Linda H. Hardesty 416 Seasonal grazing of locoweeds by cattle in northeastern New Mexico by Michael H. Ralphs, David Graham, Russell J. Molyneux, and Lynn F. James Soils 421 Old World bluestem response to fire and nitrogen fertilizers by William A. Berg Plant Physiology 425 Soil water extraction and photosynthesis in Gutierrezio surothe and Sporobolus cryptandrus by Changgui Wan, Ronald E. Sosebee, and Bobby L. McMichael 431 Dinitrogen fixation and transfer in legume-crested wheatgrass mixtures by Dick L. Gebhart, Christopher A. Call, and Richard W. Weaver 436 Characterization of crown node elevation in Punicoid grasses by C.R. Tischler and P.W. Voigt Plant Ecology 439 Viewpoint: Plant community thresholds, multiple steady states, and mui- tiple successional pathways: legacy of the Quaternary? by Robin J. Tausch, Peter E. Wigand, and J. Wayne Burkhardt 448 Factors influencing eastern redcedar seedling survival on rangeland by Published bimonthly-January, March, May, July, September, November Thomas L. 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Oklahoma 74078 Dept. 3-l Box 30003 Pullman, Washington 99164-6410 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico 68003-0003 J. Range Manage. 46:376-362, September 1993 Viewpoint: “Invisible colleges” and citation clusters in stocking rate research RICHARD H. HART Author is range scientist, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, High Plains Research Station, 8408 Hildreth Road, Cheyenne, Wyo. 82009. Abstract Research on the response of livestock grin to stocking rate tends Development of Stocking Rate Theory to cluster into 5 “invisible colleges”, represented by 5 citation Stocking rate theory deals with determining the shape of the networks which only occasionally intersect. Each college is built stocking rate-animal gain response curve and calculating the around a paradigm of the stocking rate-gain response as developed parameters of the curve for various pasture and animal types. The in 2 key papers sharing 1 or more authors. Researchers tend to cite theory provides a basis for the design and interpretation of grazing the paradigm developed by authors in their field of research or in studies, and input-output functions for economic analysis. The their geographic area. Therefore conficting pardigms have existed growth of stocking rate theory, as mapped by citations of previous side-by-side for decades, an unusual occurrence in most fields of publications, is plotted in Figure 1. science. Research is needed to critically evahrate the empirical and conceptual soundness of these paradigms. Noy-Mslr 1978 ---------\ Key Words: citation analysis, solidarity groups, sociology of science -1 The term “invisible college” appears to have been coined by the British natural philosopher Robert Boyle. Boorstin (1983) writes “...in 1656...Boyle himself had already christened this informal companionship of scientific enthusiasts wherever they were as the Invisible College.” This invisible college became the nucleus of the Royal Society, founded in 1661. Later the term “invisible college” came to symbolize divisions within science or within a field of science. Crane (1972) revived the term “invisible colleges” to define the communications networks linking nonintersecting sub-groups, each containing a few very productive scientists and many less productive ones. Mullins (1968) and Griffith and Mullins (1972) refer to Crane’s Fig. 1. Development of stocking rate-animal gain theory; a “citation nonintersecting sub-groups as “solidarity groups,” which they cha- pyramid.” Solid or broken lines and arrow8 point from citing paper to racterise as small, coherent, activist, and voluntarily and self- cited papers. consciously organized. They provide loose but effective communi- Harlan (1958) plotted “a hodge-podge of (gain per animal) data” cation networks within a team of students and junior colleagues as a double exponential function of stocking rate. Riewe (1961), headed by a productive researcher. using much of the same data, concluded that gain per head of cattle Cairns (1980) agrees that any discipline “is subdivided into loose increased linearly with decreasing stocking rate, except at very low networks of scientists with varying degrees of cohesiveness and stocking rates where it might remain constant or even decline. continuity.” Hagstrom (1965) concluded that strong leaders, Harlan (1958) and Riewe (1961) were cited by many other “whose brilliance and skill lead others to emulate them,” are the researchers in stocking rate theory, but were seldom cited by those nucleus around which “monasteries” form. doing stocking rate experiments, so did not found “invisible In this paper, “invisible colleges” in stocking rate research are colleges.‘* defined by nonintersecting or seldom-intersecting citation net- Mott (1960) calculated that the ratio of gain per animal to gain works (Price 1965 and 1976), each based on 2 key publications by per animal at optimum grazing pressure was a power function of an individual or team. These publications in turn define a para- the ratio (stocking rate)/(stocking rate at optimum grazing