Journal
SCIENTOMETRICS
Volume 85, Issue 1, Pages 65-79Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0259-8
Keywords
Keyword; Network theory; Knowledge structure; Technology Foresight
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This study proposes an approach for visualizing a knowledge structure, the proposed approach creates a three-dimensional Research focused parallelship network, a Keyword Co-occurrence Network, and a two-dimensional knowledge map to facilitate visualization of the knowledge structure created by journal papers from different perspectives. The networks and knowledge maps can be depicted differently by choosing different information as the network actor, e.g. author, institute or country keyword, to reflect knowledge structures in micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, respectively. Technology Foresight is selected as an example to illustrate the method proposed in this study. A total of 556 author keywords contained in 181 Technology Foresight related papers have been analyzed. European countries, China, India and Brazil are located at the core of Technology Foresight research. Quantitative ways of mapping journal papers are investigated in this study to unveil emerging elements as well as to demonstrate dynamics and visualization of knowledge. The quantitative method provided in this paper shows a possible way of visualizing and evaluating knowledge structure; thus a computerized calculation is possible for potential quantitative applications, e.g. R&D resource allocation, research performance evaluation, science map, etc.
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