Structure of the Anthrax Research Literature

Abstract

Text mining was used to extract technical intelligence from the open source global anthrax research literature. An anthrax-focused query was applied to the Science Citation Index/ Social Science Citation Index (SCI/SSCI) (SCI, 2006) databases. The anthrax research literature infrastructure (prolific authors, key journals/ institutions/ countries, most cited authors/ journals/ documents) was obtained using bibliometrics, and the anthrax research literature technical structure (hierarchical taxonomy) was obtained using computational linguistics/ document clustering. A novel addition was the use of author and institution auto-correlation maps to show co-publishing networks, and the use of author-phrase and institution-phrase cross-correlation maps to show author and institution networks based on use of common terminology (proxy for common interests).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA451571

Entities

People

  • Ronald Neil Kostoff
  • Serkan Oncu
  • Stephen A. Morse

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cells
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Genetics
  • Geography
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel

Readers

  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Library and Information Science