Using text analysis to quantify the similarity and evolution of scientific disciplines

Autor:	Dias, Laercio, Gerlach, Martin, Scharloth, Joachim, Altmann, Eduardo G.
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Computer Science - Digital Libraries Physics - Physics and Society
Zdroj:	R. Soc. open sci. 5: 171545 (2018)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1098/rsos.171545
Popis:	We use an information-theoretic measure of linguistic similarity to investigate the organization and evolution of scientific fields. An analysis of almost 20M papers from the past three decades reveals that the linguistic similarity is related but different from experts and citation-based classifications, leading to an improved view on the organization of science. A temporal analysis of the similarity of fields shows that some fields (e.g., computer science) are becoming increasingly central, but that on average the similarity between pairs has not changed in the last decades. This suggests that tendencies of convergence (e.g., multi-disciplinarity) and divergence (e.g., specialization) of disciplines are in balance. Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08671 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv