Identification and Characterisation of Technological Topics in the Field of Molecular Biology

TL;DR

This paper presents a diachronic clustering and bibliometric analysis method to identify and characterize technological topics within molecular biology, providing visual insights into the field's evolution over the past decade.

Contribution

It introduces a novel diachronic clustering approach combined with bibliometric indicators for analyzing technological topics in scientific literature.

Findings

Effective visualization of molecular biology's technological evolution

Identification of key topics and trends over the last decade

Method demonstrated using the Stanalyst software tool

Abstract

This paper focuses on methodological approaches for characterising the specific topics within a technological field based on scientific literature data. We introduce a diachronic clustering analysis approach and some bibliometric indicators. The results are visualised with the software-tool Stanalyst [1]. We are applying our methods to the field "Molecular Biology". This field has grown a great deal in the last decade.