Extracting the interdisciplinary specialty structures in social media data-based research: A clustering-based network approach

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dc.contributor.authorFan, Yangliu
dc.contributor.authorLehmann, Sune
dc.contributor.authorBlok, Anders
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-02T15:06:25Z
dc.date.available2024-05-02T15:06:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractAs science is becoming more interdisciplinary and potentially more data driven over time, it is important to investigate the changing specialty structures and the emerging intellectual patterns of research fields and domains. By employing a clustering-based network approach, we map the contours of a novel interdisciplinary domain – research using social media data – and analyze how the specialty structures and intellectual contributions are organized and evolve. We construct and validate a large-scale (N = 12,732) dataset of research papers using social media data from the Web of Science (WoS) database, complementing it with citation relationships from the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) database. We conduct cluster analyses in three types of citation-based empirical networks and compare the observed features with those generated by null network models. Overall, we find three core thematic research subfields – interdisciplinary socio-cultural sciences, health sciences, and geo-informatics – that designate the main epicenter of research interests recognized by this domain itself. Nevertheless, at the global topological level of all networks, we observe an increasingly interdisciplinary trend over the years, fueled by publications not only from core fields such as communication and computer science, but also from a wide variety of fields in the social sciences, natural sciences, and technology. Our results characterize the specialty structures of this domain at a time of growing emphasis on big social data, and we discuss the implications for indicating interdisciplinarity.
dc.identifier.citationFan, Y., Lehmann, S., & Blok, A. (2022). Extracting the interdisciplinary specialty structures in social media data-based research: A clustering-based network approach. Journal of Informetrics, 16(3), 101310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101310
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101310
dc.identifier.issn1751-1577
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/644
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.issupplementedbyhttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/837
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectBibliometrics
dc.subjectInterdisciplinarity
dc.subjectSocial media data
dc.subjectNetwork science
dc.titleExtracting the interdisciplinary specialty structures in social media data-based research: A clustering-based network approach
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101310
local.researchgroupDynamiken digitaler Nachrichtenvermittlung
local.researchtopicDigitale Märkte und Öffentlichkeiten auf Plattformen
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