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[Lic. Ricardo Arencibia Jorge]

Dear colleagues,

 

I post a recent work that I published in LIBRES. We use Author Co-citation Analysis (ACA) techniques and semantic analysis methods to obtain a domain conceptual structure related to a common disease that generally affect all men after 40´s :-(  Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

 

I hope nobody of SIGMETRIC subscribers (men, of course) have been affected by this disease. Anyway, its an interesting topic.

Arencibia Jorge, Ricardo and Vega Almeida, Rosa Lidia and Marti Lahera, Yohannis (2007) Domain Analysis for the Construction of a Conceptual Structure: A Case Study. LIBRES Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal 17(2).

This work describes the construction of a conceptual structure, as a result of the domain analysis of the current research on Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), through different techniques based on the citations and semantic analysis. A sample which covers all published articles about the disease in mainstream journals was chosen. A total of 1,968 articles from 2000 through 2004 were retrieved from Science Citation Index. Author Co-citation Analysis (ACA) techniques and semantic analysis were used and the results were represented by different informatic programs. A macrostructure of the domain of the current research on BPH was identified through bibliometric techniques. The text mining techniques allowed validation of the identified macrostructure and the obtainment of the most frequent words in the text. The semantic analysis of the most cited reviews on BPH during the studied period allowed the definition of the categories to be used in the structure. Finally, a conceptu
 
 al structure to be used as controlled (structured) language in the information retrieval, inside of a specialized information system on the approach of the disease is shown.

Keywords: Domain analysis, knowledge organization, conceptual structure, bibliometrics, citation analysis, semantic analysis, text mining, Prostatic Benign Hyperplasia.

Available in E-LIS: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00011731/

Best Regards,

 

Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge

Network of Scientometric Studies for Higher Education

National Scientific Research Center, Havana, Cuba.

ricardo.arencibia at cnic.edu.cu 

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