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Phenomenological Approach To Profile Impact Of Scientific Research: Citation Mining

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  • J. A. DEL RIO

    (Centro de Investigacion en Energia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 34 Temixco, Mor., Mexico)

  • R. N. KOSTOFF

    (Office of Naval Research Arlington, VA, USA)

  • E. O. GARCIA

    (Centro de Investigacion en Energia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 34 Temixco, Mor., Mexico)

  • A. M. RAMIREZ

    (Centro de Investigacion en Energia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A. P. 34 Temixco, Mor., Mexico)

  • J. A. HUMENIK

    (NOESIS Inc., Rockville, MD, USA)

Abstract

In this paper we present a phenomenological approach to describe a complex systemcolon; scientific research impact through Citation Mining. The novel concept of Citation Mining, a combination of citation bibliometrics and text mining, is used for the phenomenological description. Citation Mining starts with a group of core papers whose impact is to be examined, retrieves the papers that cite these core papers, and then analyzes the bibliometrics characteristics of the citing papers as well as their linguistic and thematic characteristics. The Science Citation Index is used as the source database for the core of citing papers, since its citation-based structure enables the capability to perform citation studies easily. This paper presents illustrative examples in photovoltaics (applied research) and sandpile dynamics (basic research) to show the types of output products possible. Bibliometric profiling is performed over a number of the citing papers' record fields to offer different perspectives on the citing (user) community. Text mining is performed on the aggregate citing papers, to identify aggregate citing community themes, and to identify extra-discipline and applications themes. The photovoltaics applied research papers had of the order of hundreds of citations in aggregate. All of the citing papers ranged from applied research to applications, and their main themes were fully aligned with those of the aggregate cited papers. This seems to be the typical case with applied research. The sandpile dynamics basic research papers had hundreds of citations in aggregate. Most of the citing papers were also basic research whose main themes were aligned with those of the cited paper. This is typically the case with basic research. However, about twenty percent of the citing papers were research or development in other disciplines, or development within the same discipline. In addition, there was a four year lag time between publication and citation by the development papers.

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  • J. A. Del Rio & R. N. Kostoff & E. O. Garcia & A. M. Ramirez & J. A. Humenik, 2002. "Phenomenological Approach To Profile Impact Of Scientific Research: Citation Mining," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(01), pages 19-42.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:05:y:2002:i:01:n:s0219525902000523
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219525902000523
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