Identifying emerging topics in science and technology

Research Policy

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1450-1467

  Small, Henry ^a   Boyack, Kevin W ^a   Klavans, Richard ^a  

^a SciTech Strategies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation based modeling; Emerging topics; Exogenous events; Scientific discovery; Technological innovation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING;

DIFFERENCE FUNCTIONS; EMERGING TOPICS; EXOGENOUS EVENTS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84905048738     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.02.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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