Exploration of an interdisciplinary scientific landscape

Juste Raimbault ()
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Scientometrics, 2019, vol. 119, issue 2, No 3, 617-641

Abstract: Abstract Patterns of interdisciplinarity in science can be quantified through complementary dimensions. This paper studies as a case study the scientific environment of a generalist journal in Geography, Cybergeo, in order to introduce a novel methodology combining citation network analysis and semantic analysis. We collect a large corpus of around 200,000 articles with their abstracts and the corresponding citation network that provides a first citation classification. Relevant keywords are extracted for each article through text-mining, allowing us to construct a semantic classification. We study the qualitative patterns of relations between endogenous disciplines within each classification, and finally show the complementarity of classifications and of their associated interdisciplinarity measures. The tools we develop accordingly are open and reusable for similar large scale studies of scientific environments. Our contribution therefore provides, besides the methodology, a new way to construct open databases and study journals for which data are difficult to obtain.

Keywords: Citation network; Semantic network; Interdisciplinarity; Geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03090-3

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