Assessing obliteration by incorporation in a full-text database: JSTOR, Economics, and the concept of “bounded rationality”

To evaluate the usefulness of a full-text database as a source for assessing obliteration by incorporation (OBI), 3,707 article records including the catchphrases bounded rationality and/or boundedly rational (connected with the work of H. A. Simon) in the article text were retrieved from JSTOR, a full-text database with broad disciplinary coverage. Two subsets were analyzed--a 10 % systematic sample of all records and a set of all articles in...