• publisher: T. Ackermann
  • creator: He, Qin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • contributor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dissertations & theses @ CIC institutions.
  • years: 2001.
  • isbn: 9780493274089
  • notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-06, Section: A, page: 1971.
  • description: Co-word analysis is a technique proposed to detect the intellectual structure of science by clustering words from scientific literature. It counts the co-occurrence of term pairs in texts, computes the association between terms using special indexes, and clusters terms into various graphical structures. Each graph (map) represents a theme in a research field and the graphs from several continuous periods can map the dynamics of the research field.
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