Combining full text and bibliometric information in mapping scientific disciplines

  • Authors:
  • Patrick Glenisson;Wolfgang Glänzel;Frizo Janssens;Bart De Moor

  • Affiliations:
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Steunpunt O&O Statistieken, Dekenstraat, Leuven, Belgium and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Steunpunt O&O Statistieken, Dekenstraat, Leuven, Belgium and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Research Organisation, Budapest, Hungary;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg, Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Infometrics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In the present study results of an earlier pilot study by Glenisson, Glänzel and Persson are extended on the basis of larger sets of papers. Full text analysis and traditional bibliometric methods are serially combined to improve the efficiency of the two individual methods. The text mining methodology already introduced in the pilot study is applied to the complete publication year 2003 of the journal Scientometrics. Altogether 85 documents that can be considered research articles or notes have been selected for this exercise. The outcomes confirm the main results of the pilot study, namely, that such hybrid methodology can be applied to both research evaluation and information retrieval. Nevertheless, Scientometrics documents published in 2003 cover a much broader and more heterogeneous spectrum of bibliometrics and related research than those analysed in the pilot study. A modified subject classification based on the scheme used in an earlier study by Schoepflin and Glänzel has been applied for validation purposes.