Drawing impossible boundaries: field delineation of Social Network Science

Lietz, Haiko

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03527-0

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“…For example, researchers have used social network analysis and natural language processing to help make sense of the increasing amounts of available data. 12 To this end, we encourage those interested in field delineation to explore emerging methods with the caveat that they strongly consider collaborating with researchers with expertise in information science, specifically those with expertise in bibliometrics.…”

Section: Pearlsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Field delineation itself is often viewed as the first step in a research process to allow scientists to explore the structures and dynamics of a research field using bibliometrics. 11,12 Bibliometrics is the analysis of published information (e.g., journal articles) and its related metadata (e.g, titles, abstracts) using statistics. 13 Bibliometrics provides a sense of what is valued, recognized and utilized in a field’s scholarly literature.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, there is no foolproof approach for all fields and often field borders can be quite fuzzy. 11,12,17 A field’s border can be especially fuzzy in cases of emerging, interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary fields. In such cases, field delineation can be fraught with additional complications.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Delineating Medical Education: Bibliometric Research Approach(es)

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Ninkov

Frank

et al. 2021

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Background: The field of medical education remains poorly delineated such that there is no broad consensus of the articles and journals that comprise "the field." This lack of consensus has implications for conducting bibliometric studies and other research designs (e.g., systematic reviews); it also challenges the field to compare citation scores in the field and across others and for an individual to identify themselves as "a medical education researcher." Other fields have utilized bibliometric field delineation, which is the assigning of articles or journals to a certain field in an effort to define that field. Process: In this Research Approach, three bibliometric field delineation approaches -- information retrieval, core journals, and journal co-citation --are introduced. For each approach, the authors describe their attempt to apply it in the medical education context and identify related strengths and weaknesses. Based on co-citation, the authors propose the Medical Education Journal List 24 (MEJ-24), as a starting point for delineating medical education and invite the community to collaborate on improving and potentially expanding this list. Pearls: As a research approach, field delineation is complicated, and there is no clear best way to delineate the field of medical education. However, recent advances in information and computer science provide potentially more fruitful approaches to deal with the complexity of the field. When considering these emerging approaches, researchers should consider collaborating with bibliometricians. Bibliometric approaches rely on available metadata for articles and journals, which necessitates that researchers examine the metadata prior to analysis to understand its strengths and weaknesses, and to assess how this might affect their data interpretation. While using bibliometric approaches for field delineation is valuable, it is important to remember that these techniques are only as good as the research team's interpretation of the data, which suggests that an expanded research approach is needed to better delineate medical education, an approach that includes active discussion within the medical education community.

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Section: Pearlsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Delineating Medical Education: Bibliometric Research Approach(es)

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Frank

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“…Bibliometric field delineation is described as the assigning of articles or journals to a certain field (i.e., using the field's ‘building blocks’ 10 to define that field 11 ). Field delineation itself is often viewed as the first step in a research process to allow scientists to explore the structures and dynamics of a research field using bibliometrics 12,13 . Bibliometrics is the analysis of published information (e.g., journal articles) and its related metadata (e.g., titles, abstracts) using statistics 14 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Field delineation is rarely straightforward. Indeed, there is no foolproof approach for all fields and often field borders can be quite fuzzy 12,13,19 . A field's border can be especially fuzzy in cases of emerging, interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary fields.…”

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Delineating the field of medical education: Bibliometric research approach(es)

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Background The field of medical education remains poorly delineated such that there is no broad consensus of articles or journals that comprise ‘the field’. This lack of consensus indicates a missed opportunity for researchers to generate insights about the field that could facilitate conducting bibliometric studies and other research designs (e.g., systematic reviews) and also enable individuals to identify themselves as ‘medical education researchers’. Other fields have utilised bibliometric field delineation, which is the assigning of articles or journals to a certain field in an effort to define that field. Process In this Research Approach, three bibliometric field delineation approaches—information retrieval, core journals, and journal co‐citation—are introduced. For each approach, the authors describe attempts to apply it in medical education and identify related strengths and weaknesses. Based on co‐citation, the authors propose the Medical Education Journal List 24 (MEJ‐24), as a starting point for delineating medical education and invite the community to collaborate on improving and potentially expanding this list. Pearls As a research approach, field delineation is complicated, and there is no clear best way to delineate the field of medical education. However, recent advances in information science provide potentially fruitful approaches to deal with the field's complexity. When considering these approaches, researchers should consider collaborating with bibliometricians. Bibliometric approaches rely on available metadata for articles and journals, which necessitates that researchers examine the metadata prior to analysis to understand its strengths and weaknesses, and to assess how this might affect data interpretation. While using bibliometric approaches for field delineation is valuable, it is important to remember that these techniques are only as good as the research team's interpretation of the data, which suggests that an expanded approach is needed to better delineate medical education, an approach that includes active discussion within the medical education community.

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Automatic noise reduction of domain-specific bibliographic datasets using positive-unlabeled learning

Chen

Yu³

et al. 2022

Scientometrics

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Drawing impossible boundaries: field delineation of Social Network Science

Cited by 11 publications

References 287 publications

Delineating Medical Education: Bibliometric Research Approach(es)

Delineating Medical Education: Bibliometric Research Approach(es)

Delineating the field of medical education: Bibliometric research approach(es)

Automatic noise reduction of domain-specific bibliographic datasets using positive-unlabeled learning

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