Science Mapping:A Systematic Review of the Literature

作     者：Chaomei Chen 

作者机构：College of Computing and InformaticsDrexel UniversityPhiladelphiaPA 19104-2875USA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Data and Information Science》 (数据与情报科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第2卷第2期

页      面：1-40页

核心收录：

学科分类：1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 12[管理学] 120502[管理学-情报学] 

基　　金：Chang Jiang Scholars Program of the Chinese Ministry of Education Library and Information Commission National Science Foundation, NSF Pfizer Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, EPSRC European Commission, EC 

主　　题：Science mapping Knowledge domain visualization Domain analysis Systematic review Cite Space 

摘      要：Purpose： We present a systematic review of the literature concerning major aspects of science mapping to serve two primary purposes： First, to demonstrate the use of a science mapping approach to perform the review so that researchers may apply the procedure to the review of a scientific domain of their own interest, and second, to identify major areas of research activities concerning science mapping, intellectual milestones in the development of key specialties, evolutionary stages of major specialties involved, and the dynamics of transitions from one specialty to ***/methodology/approach： We first introduce a theoretical framework of the evolution of a scientific specialty. Then we demonstrate a generic search strategy that can be used to construct a representative dataset of bibliographic records of a domain of research. Next, progressively synthesized co-citation networks are constructed and visualized to aid visual analytic studies of the domain＇s structural and dynamic patterns and trends. Finally, trajectories of citations made by particular types of authors and articles are presented to illustrate the predictive potential of the analytic ***： The evolution of the science mapping research involves the development of a number of interrelated specialties. Four major specialties are discussed in detail in terms of four evolutionary stages： conceptualization, tool construction, application, and codification. Underlying connections between major specialties are also explored. The predictive analysis demonstrates citations trajectories of potentially transformative *** limitations： The systematic review is primarily guided by citation patterns in the dataset retrieved from the literature. The scope of the data is limited by the source of the retrieval, i.e. the Web of Science, and the composite query used. An iterative query refinement is possible if one would like to improve the data quality, although the current appro