Research Progress of Research Front Recognition Methods in Subject Fields

Subjects: Library Science，Information Science >> Information Science submitted time 2023-04-01 Cooperative journals: 《图书情报工作》

Zhang Xue Zhang Zhiqiang Cao Lingjing Ruan Weinan Ren Xiaoya Feng Zhigang

Abstract： [Purpose/Significance] Sorting out the relevant researches of domestic and foreign research front, this paper summarizes the problems existing in the existing researches, and provides references for the identification of the research front in the subject field. [Method/Process] This paper first summarized the necessity of research front identification, then discriminated the relevant concepts. Subsequently, based on the investigation of domestic and foreign relevant researches, this paper classified it from two aspects of the research methods of research front identification and the new direction of research front identification, and finally put forward the existing research deficiencies and prospects for the future development. [Result/Conclusion] In terms of concept definition, the connotation of the research front is finally clarified by analyzing the series of concepts related to the research front from two perspectives of the time dimension and the definition scope. In terms of identification methods, classical research methods include direct citation, co-citation analysis, literature coupling, and word cluster-based methods for identifying research fronts; at the same time, research front identification based on multi-source data, multi-dimensional indicators and machine learning algorithms is a new direction of the future research. On the basis of the above analysis, this paper summarizes the shortcomings of different types of research front identification methods and the existing universal problems, and looks forward to the future research priorities.

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