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Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis |
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| Authors: | Ying Ding Gobinda G Chowdhury Schubert Foo |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, Santiago 8330015, Chile;2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6R 2V4 AB, Canada;3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia;4. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;5. Department of Industrial Engineering, FCFM, University of Chile, Av. Beauchef 851, Santiago, Chile;1. Department of Business Administration, University of Barcelona, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;2. Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, 08330015 Santiago, Chile;3. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, 4070129 Concepción, Chile;4. School of Systems, Management and Leadership, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, 81 Broadway, Ultimo 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| Abstract: | The aim of this study is to map the intellectual structure of the field of Information Retrieval (IR) during the period of 1987–1997. Co-word analysis was employed to reveal patterns and trends in the IR field by measuring the association strengths of terms representative of relevant publications or other texts produced in IR field. Data were collected from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the period of 1987–1997. In addition to the keywords added by the SCI and SSCI databases, other important keywords were extracted from titles and abstracts manually. These keywords were further standardized using vocabulary control tools. In order to trace the dynamic changes of the IR field, the whole 11-year period was further separated into two consecutive periods: 1987–1991 and 1992–1997. The results show that the IR field has some established research themes and it also changes rapidly to embrace new themes. |
| Keywords: | Co-word analysis Information retrieval research Research trends Science citation index Social science citation index |
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