Topics in dynamic research communities: An exploratory study for the field of information retrieval

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-153

  Yan, Erjia ^a   Ding, Ying ^a   Milojević, StaŠa ^a   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coauthorship; Community; Knowledge discovery; Latent Dirichlet Allocation; Network

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755172661     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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