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Deciphering the Department-Discipline Relationships within a University through Bibliometric Analysis of Publications Aided with Multivariate Techniques

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Title: Deciphering the Department-Discipline Relationships within a University through Bibliometric Analysis of Publications Aided with Multivariate Techniques
Authors: Pitambar, Gautam Browse this author →KAKEN DB
Keywords: bibliometry
scientometry
multivariate statistics
correspondence analysis
clustering
cross-disciplinarity
ESI fields
Issue Date: Jul-2015
Publisher: International Institute of Applied Informatics
Journal Title: 2015 IIAI 4th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics, At Okayama, Japan
Start Page: 468
End Page: 471
Publisher DOI: 10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2015.212
Abstract: This study explores a practical approach to decipher the department-discipline relationships between the organizational research units dedicated to natural science, technology, engineering & medical (STEM) fields and 22 disciplinary categories used in Essential Science Indicators database (ESI 22 fields), for a Japanese national university as seen in a set of peer-reviewed journal publications (articles & reviews) indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database for a 5-years period. The procedure involved several steps such as (i) identification of publications of each organizational research unit through disambiguation of the affiliation data; (ii) assigning each publication to the corresponding ESI field based on journal title; (iii) aggregating bibliometric information of all publications for each research unit and discipline, and (iv) performing multivariate analysis, e.g., clustering and correspondence analysis, to extract proximity relationships and internal structures that enable regrouping the obtained data and visualizing them using two-dimensional plots and bar diagrams. This approach may be easily adapted for analysis using other available disciplinary (subject areas or categories) schemes. Moreover, such analysis can be further extended to lower hierarchical levels, such as research divisions or research teams comprising a complex multidisciplinary department. The proposed affiliation-based analysis is useful for initial understanding the disciplinary contribution of the university departments to overall research output, e.g., for analysis of ranking based on performance for past 5-6 years tracing past history. It can be easily adapted to the bottom-up research performance analysis (based on current researchers) required for research administration or research strategy formulation based on the research output of the immediate past.
Conference Name: International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics
Conference Sequence: 4
Conference Place: Okayama
Rights: © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Type: proceedings (author version)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/60037
Appears in Collections:創成研究機構 (Creative Research Institution) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)

Submitter: Gautam Pitambar

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