This paper examines the role of interdisciplinarity on research pertaining to local issues. Using Colombian publications from 1991 until 2011 in the Web of Science, we investigate the relationship between the degree of interdisciplinarity and the local orientation of the articles. Continue reading Interdisciplinarity and research on local issues: evidence from a developing country
Category Archives: Citation analysis
A Bibliometric Study of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline
Informing Science is a young transdisciplinary science. the essential characteristics of which were defined fifteen years ago. The journal Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (In-formSciJ) is the flagship journal of transdisciplinary Informing Science. A study about the publi-cation’s influence and readership could be pertinent to better understanding the present state of Informing Science. Continue reading A Bibliometric Study of Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline
A citation and profiling analysis of pricing research from 1980 to 2010
This paper identifies the body of literature related to pricing that exists in 20 marketing or business journals contained in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between January 1980 and June 2010. During this 30-year period we found over 38,800 citations were made to 1945 articles that dealt with some aspect of pricing. Continue reading A citation and profiling analysis of pricing research from 1980 to 2010
Visualizing Cross-disciplinarity: Assessing the US National Science Foundation Human & Social Dynamics Program
We report on a project to assess the interdisciplinary and research networking implications of a bold US National Science Foundation program that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Continue reading Visualizing Cross-disciplinarity: Assessing the US National Science Foundation Human & Social Dynamics Program
Dynamics of scientific knowledge bases as proxies for discerning technological emergence — The case of MEMS/NEMS technologies
Emerging technologies embrace the very early stages of socio-technological evolution. Despite their appealing nature, they have been loosely defined and operationalized. In particular, operationalization approaches based on bibliometric methods have often tended to emphasize the exponential growth and the potential impacts of emerging technologies while overlooking their inherent uncertainty and ‘fluidity’. Continue reading Dynamics of scientific knowledge bases as proxies for discerning technological emergence — The case of MEMS/NEMS technologies
A Hybrid Visualized Model for Composing Technology Roadmapping: Bibliometrics, Qualitative Methodology & Empirical Study
Extended Abstract – FUTURE-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011
Author(s): Yi Zhang, Ying Guo, Donghua Zhu, and Xuefeng Wang; Beijing Institute of Technology
The booming of emerging technology is an obvious global feature of today’s S&T development at the same as it is also becoming a key factor in the national R&D programs. Considering this, how to describe the dynamic development path of emerging technology via visualization including market, product and technique elements should be considered seriously by both governments and enterprises. Continue reading A Hybrid Visualized Model for Composing Technology Roadmapping: Bibliometrics, Qualitative Methodology & Empirical Study
The structure of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A mapping on the basis of aggregated citations among 1,157 journals
Extended Abstract – Science Mapping session at “1st Global TechMining Conference” 2011
Authors: Loet Leydesdorff (Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam), Björn Hammarfelt (Library and Information Science and Museology, Uppsala University), and Alkim Almila Akdag Salah (Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) 2008, we apply mapping techniques previously developed for mapping journal structures in the Science and Social Science Citation Indices. Citation relations among the 110,718 records were aggregated at the level of 1,157 journals specific to the A&HCI, and the journal structures are questioned on whether a cognitive structure can be reconstructed and visualized. Both cosine-normalization (bottom up) and factor analysis (top down) suggest a division into approximately twelve subsets. Continue reading The structure of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A mapping on the basis of aggregated citations among 1,157 journals