Comparison of topic extraction approaches and their results

Scientometrics

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1169-1221

  Velden, Theresa ^a,b   Boyack, Kevin W ^c   Gläser, Jochen ^b   Koopman, Rob ^d   Scharnhorst, Andrea ^e   Wang, Shenghui ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SciTech Strategies Inc   (United States)

^d OCLC Research   (Netherlands)

^e Afdeling Moleculaire Opthalmogenetica   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Clustering; Comparative methods; Data modeling; Science mapping; Topic extraction; Topic labeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014510325     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2306-1     Document Type: Article

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