ABS: Kostoff, Database Tomography for Technical Intelligence

[Gretchen Whitney]

Database tomography for technical intelligence: A roadmap of the
near-earth space science and technology literature
Kostoff RN, Eberhart HJ, Toothman
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INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
34: (1) 69-85 JAN 1998

Document type: Article
Language: English
Cited References: 46
Times
Cited: 1


Abstract:
Database Tomography (DT) is a system which includes algorithms for
extracting multi-word phrase frequencies and performing phrase
proximity analyses (relating physical closeness of the multi-word
technical phrases to thematic relationships) on any type of large textual
database. As an illustration of the DT process applied to the published
literature, DT was used to derive technical intelligence from a near-earth
space (NES) database derived from the Science Citation Index and the
Engineering Compendex. Phase frequency analysis (the occurrence
frequency of multi-word technical phrases) provided the pervasive
technical themes of the space database, and the phrase proximity analysis
provided the relationships among the pervasive technical themes.
Bibliometric analysis of the NES literature supplemented the DT results by
identifying: the recent most prolific NES authors; the journals which
contain numerous NES papers; the institutions which produce numerous
NES papers; the keywords most frequently specified by the NES authors; the
authors whose works are cited most frequently in the NES
papers; and the particular papers and journals cited most frequently in
the NES papers.

Addresses:
Kostoff RN, Off Naval Res, 800 N Quincy St, Arlington, VA 22217 USA.
Off Naval Res, Arlington, VA 22217 USA.
USN, Air Warfare Ctr China Lake, China Lake, CA USA.
DSTI Inc, Rockville, MD USA.

Publisher:
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, OXFORD

IDS Number:
ZA695

ISSN:
0306-4573

c. ISI, please visit their website at www.isinet.com
Reprinted with permission.


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Gretchen Whitney, PhD                                     tel 423.974.7919
School of Information Sciences                            fax 423.974.4967
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996 USA           gwhitney at utk.edu
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