Using network science and text analytics to produce surveys in a scientific topic.
In: Journal of Informetrics, Jg. 10 (2016-05-01), Heft 2, S. 487-502
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The use of science to understand its own structure is becoming popular, but understanding the organization of knowledge areas is still limited because some patterns are only discoverable with proper computational treatment of large-scale datasets. In this paper, we introduce a framework to combine network-based methodologies and text analytics to construct the taxonomy of science fields. The methodology is illustrated with application to two topics: complex networks (CN) and photonic crystals (PC). We built citation networks using data from the Web of Science and used a community detection algorithm for partitioning to obtain science maps for the two topics. We also created an importance index for text analytics, which is employed to extract keywords that define the communities and, combined with network topology metrics, to generate dendrograms of relatedness among subtopics. Interesting patterns emerging from the analysis included identification of two well-defined communities in PC area, which is consistent with the known existence of two distinct communities of researchers in the area: telecommunication engineers and physicists. With the methodology, it was also possible to assess the interdisciplinary nature and time evolution of subtopics defined by the keywords. The automatic tools described here are potentially useful not only to provide an overview of scientific areas but also to assist scientists in performing systematic research on a specific topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Using network science and text analytics to produce surveys in a scientific topic.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Silva, Filipi N. ; Amancio, Diego R. ; Bardosova, Maria ; Costa, Luciano da F. ; Jr.Oliveira, Osvaldo N. |
Zeitschrift: | Journal of Informetrics, Jg. 10 (2016-05-01), Heft 2, S. 487-502 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2016 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1751-1577 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.joi.2016.03.008 |
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