Using content analysis to investigate the research paths chosen by scientists over time

Proceedings of ISSI 2007 - 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 285-294

  Franzoni, Chiara ^a   Simpkins, Christopher L ^b   Li, Baoli ^b   Ram, Ashwin ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic scientists; Content analysis; Knowledge development; Research trajectories; Semantic search

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

ACADEMIC SCIENTISTS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH TRAJECTORIES; SEMANTIC SEARCH;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 84902140709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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