Towards more convergent main paths: A relevance-based approach |
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| Institution: | 1. Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;2. Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;1. Hasselt University, Belgium;2. KU Leuven, Belgium, University of Antwerp, Belgium;1. ESPOL Polytechnic University, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Facultad de Ingeniería en Electricidad y Computación, Campus Gustavo Galindo Km 30.5 Vía Perimetral, Guayaquil, P.O. Box 09-01-5863, Ecuador;2. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI), University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain;1. Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan;2. Center for Research in Econometric Theory and Applications, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan;1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Daffodil International University, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh;2. Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, India;3. DST-Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India;1. Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing 100038, P.R. China;2. College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P.R. China;3. School of Information Resource Management, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, P.R. China;4. Business School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, P.R. China |
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| Abstract: | This research proposes a new approach that considers citation relevance in main path analysis (MPA). Traditional MPA assumes that all citations have equal weight, but in practice treating every citation equally may not find the main paths that truthfully reflect the knowledge flow in a target science field. To address the issue, this study suggests taking the level of relevance among documents into consideration. For demonstration purposes, the level of relevance is determined by similarity in both citation structure and key phrases among documents. The approach not only achieves convergence of development trajectories, but also helps frame the topics on the main paths to a specific concept from a wide range of research domains. This study takes health interoperability fields as the demonstration case to show the effects of converging the trajectories toward a target domain. |
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