Journal article
Measuring and visualizing the contributions of Chinese and American LIS research institutions to emerging themes and salient themes
Scientometrics, v 105(3), pp 1605-1634
01 Dec 2015
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
Novelty and salience of the research topics are vital for the competitiveness of research institutions and the development of science and technology. In this study, two novel weighting methods were proposed to differentiate the emergence and salience of research topics. A methodology was constructed to measure and visualize the contributions of research institutions to emerging themes and salient ones. The methods were illustrated with the data of ninety Chinese and American Library and Information Science research institutions collected from the Engineering Compendex and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases between 2001 and 2012. The contributions of the investigated research institutions to the emerging themes and salient ones were calculated and visualized with the Treemap technique. The institutions were further ranked by their contributions and categorized into four types. The findings can help research institutions evaluate novelty and salience of their research topics, discover research fronts and hotspots and promote their research development.
Metrics
Details
- Title
- Measuring and visualizing the contributions of Chinese and American LIS research institutions to emerging themes and salient themes
- Creators
- Lu An - Wuhan UniversityXia Lin - Drexel UniversityChuanming Yu - Zhongnan University of Economics and LawXinwen Zhang - Wuhan University
- Publication Details
- Scientometrics, v 105(3), pp 1605-1634
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 30
- Grant note
- 71373286 / National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) China Scholarship Council 11CTQ025 / National Social Science Foundation of China
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000365130100012
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84947129349
- Other Identifier
- 991019167323704721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This publication has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
InCites Highlights
Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:
- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Information Science & Library Science