Kostoff, RN; Koytcheff, RG; Lau, CGY "Technical structure of the global nanoscience and nanotechnology literature" JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 9 (5). OCT 2007. p.701-724

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: kostofr at onr.navy.mil 

TITLE:          Technical structure of the global nanoscience and
                nanotechnology literature (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Kostoff, RN; Koytcheff, RG; Lau, CGY
SOURCE:         JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH 9 (5). OCT 2007.
                p.701-724 SPRINGER, DORDRECHT

Document Type: Article 
Language: English 
Cited References: 10      Times Cited: 0   
     
Abstract: 
Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence from the open source 
global nanotechnology and nanoscience research literature. An extensive 
nanotechnology/nanoscience-focused query was applied to the Science 
Citation Index/Social Science Citation Index (SCI/SSCI) databases. The 
nanotechnology/nanoscience research literature technical structure 
(taxonomy) was obtained using computational linguistics/document clustering 
and factor analysis. The infrastructure (prolific authors, key 
journals/institutions/countries, most cited authors/journals/documents) for 
each of the clusters generated by the document clustering algorithm was 
obtained using bibliometrics. Another novel addition was the use of phrase 
auto-correlation maps to show technical thrust areas based on phrase co-
occurrence in Abstracts, and the use of phrase-phrase cross-correlation 
maps to show technical thrust areas based on phrase relations due to the 
sharing of common co-occurring phrases. The similar to 400 most cited 
nanotechnology papers since 1991 were grouped, and their characteristics 
generated. Whereas the main analysis provided technical thrusts of all 
nanotechnology papers retrieved, analysis of the most cited papers allowed 
their characteristics to be displayed. Finally, most cited papers from 
selected time periods were extracted, along with all publications from 
those time periods, and the institutions and countries were compared based 
on their representation in the most cited documents list relative to their 
representation in the most publications list. 

Addresses: Kostoff RN (reprint author), Off Naval Res, 875 N Randolph St, 
Arlington, VA 22217 USA
Off Naval Res, Arlington, VA 22217 USA
Inst Def Anal, Alexandria, VA 22311 USA

E-mail Addresses: kostofr at onr.navy.mil 

Publisher: SPRINGER, VAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS 
Subject Category: Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Nanoscience & 
Nanotechnology; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary 
IDS Number: 181YE 

ISSN: 1388-0764  

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