  As a social science information service for the German language countries, we
document research projects, publications, and data in relevant fields. At the
same time, we aim to provide well-founded bibliometric studies of these fields.
Performing a citation analysis on an area of the German social sciences is,
however, a serious challenge given the low and likely significantly biased
coverage of these fields in the standard citation databases. Citations, and
especially author citations, play a highly significant role in that literature,
however. In this work in progress, we report preliminary methods and results
for an author name co-mention analysis of a large fragment of a particularly
interesting corpus of German sociology: a quarter century's worth of the
full-text proceedings of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Soziologie (DGS), which
celebrated its 100th anniversary meeting in 2012. Results are encouraging for
this poor cousin of author co-citation analysis, but considerable refinements,
especially of the underlying computational infrastructure for full-text
analysis, appear advisable for full-scale deployment of this method.
