Data search strategy for science and technology emergence: A scalable and evolutionary query for nanotechnology tracking

Mogoutov, Andreï; Kahane, Bernard

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2007.02.005

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“…Mogoutov and Kahane (2007) claimed that the core of related keywords will experience an even more rapid growth than the entire database of nanotechnology publications. Early bibliometric analysis by, for instance, Braun et al (1997) and Tolles (2001), which harvested publications through respective nano-prefixed keywords, or merely the simple term ''nano*'', suffered from the omission of biotechnology-related publications whose keywords were less likely to contain the prefix ''nano''.…”

Section: Lexical Querymentioning

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“…In the Nanobank Project, Zucker et al (2007) obtained core nanotechnology publications from the weekly Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, which includes the latest research articles appearing in a variety of source publications in the field. Mogoutov and Kahane (2007) retrieved core publications through a simple nano prefix search strategy. In the second step, scholars harvested a set of keywords from the core publications and ranked the keywords by their level of relevance to the field, based on the frequencies of the keywords or combined keywords appearing in the core publications.…”

Section: Evolutionary Lexical Querymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…keyword sets to harvest additional publications and repeated the process until the publications converged on a relatively consistent set of keywords that changed only slightly between iterations. Different from Zucker et al (2007) and Kostoff et al (2006a, b), Mogoutov and Kahane (2007) did not adopt a multiple-stage iterative process but involved experts in verifying and modifying the expanded keyword set.…”

Section: Evolutionary Lexical Querymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nanoscience and technology publications and patents: a review of social science studies and search strategies

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We undertake a comprehensive review of more than 120 social science studies on nanotechnology, 90% of which are based on the analyses of the nanotechnology publications and patents. We discussed four intellectual debates formed by these studies, namely whether nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field, whether nanoscience and nanotechnology are closely interlinked, whether nanotechnology development is path dependent and who is winning the global nanorace. We also conduct a comparative analysis of bibliometric search strategies used in the literature to harvest the publications and patents, including lexical queries, evolutionary lexical queries, citation analysis, and the use of core journal sets to identify nanotechnology articles. Because most of the compared strategies, except the one using 10 core journals in the field, share a core set of keywords and thus harvest a common batch of publications, they produce very similar ranking tables of the top subject areas and journals and the most prolific countries and institutions. Moreover, the core journal strategy does not provide a robust delineation of an emerging field such as nanotechnology due to the fact that nanotechnology related articles are published in a wide range of journals. Also, the different criteria for selecting the core journals will affect the analytical results dramatically.

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Section: Lexical Querymentioning

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Section: Evolutionary Lexical Querymentioning

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Section: Evolutionary Lexical Querymentioning

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“…To construct the database of all authors and articles in nanotechnology, we implemented the search strategy described in [27] within the Web of Science database. The database of authors and articles on sustainability science was generated for a recent study of the evolution and structure of this field, see [28].…”

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“…(34) is unchanged from our previous finding in Eq. (27), but the relation among coefficients in Eq. (33) has picked up the extra factor of (1+r) s i −1 compared to the corresponding expression in Eq.…”

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General Critical Properties of the Dynamics of Scientific Discovery

Bettencourt

Kaiser

2011

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Scientific fields are difficult to define and compare, yet there is a general sense that they undergo similar stages of development. From this point of view it becomes important to determine if these superficial similarities can be translated into a general framework that would quantify the general advent and subsequent dynamics of scientific ideas. Such a framework would have important practical applications of allowing us to compare fields that superficially may appear different, in terms of their subject matter, research techniques, typical collaboration size, etc. Particularh' important in a field's history is the moment at which conceptual and technical unification allows widespread exchange of ideas and collaboration, at which point networks of collaboration show the analog of a percolation phenomenon, developing a giant connected component containing most authors. Here we investigate the generality of this topological transition in the collaboration structure of scientific fields as they grow and become denser. We develop a general theoretical framework in which each scientific field is an instantiation of the same large-scale topological critical phenomenon. We consider whether the evidence from a variety of specific fields is consistent with this picture, and estimate critical exponents associated with the transition. We then discuss the generality of the phenomenon and to what extent we may expect other scientific fields -including very large ones -to follow the same dynamics.

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The extraction of community structures from publication networks to support ethnographic observations of field differences in scientific communication

Velden

Lagoze

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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The scientific community of researchers in a research specialty is an important unit of analysis for understanding the field-specific shaping of scientific communication practices. These scientific communities are, however, a challenging unit of analysis to capture and compare because they overlap, have fuzzy boundaries, and evolve over time. We describe a network analytic approach that reveals the complexities of these communities through the examination of their publication networks in combination with insights from ethnographic field studies. We suggest that the structures revealed indicate overlapping subcommunities within a research specialty, and we provide evidence that they differ in disciplinary orientation and research practices. By mapping the community structures of scientific fields we increase confidence about the domain of validity of ethnographic observations as well as of collaborative patterns extracted from publication networks thereby enabling the systematic study of field differences. The network analytic methods presented include methods to optimize the delineation of a bibliographic data set to adequately represent a research specialty and methods to extract community structures from this data. We demonstrate the application of these methods in a case study of two research specialties in the physical and chemical sciences.

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Data search strategy for science and technology emergence: A scalable and evolutionary query for nanotechnology tracking

Cited by 113 publications

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Nanoscience and technology publications and patents: a review of social science studies and search strategies

Nanoscience and technology publications and patents: a review of social science studies and search strategies

General Critical Properties of the Dynamics of Scientific Discovery

The extraction of community structures from publication networks to support ethnographic observations of field differences in scientific communication

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