Measuring popularity of ecological topics in a temporal dynamical knowledge network.

ABSTRACT: As interdisciplinary branches of ecology are developing rapidly in the 21st century, contents of ecological researches have become more abundant than ever before. Along with the exponential growth of number of published literatures, it is more and more difficult for ecologists to get a clear picture of their discipline. Nevertheless, the era of big data has brought us massive information of well documented historical literature and various techniques of data processing, which greatly facilitates the implementation of bibliometric analysis on ecology. Frequency has long been used as the primary metric in keyword analysis to detect ecological hotspots, however, this method could be somewhat biased. In our study, we have suggested a method called PAFit to measure keyword popularity, which con

SUBMITTER: Huang TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6353539 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature