“…Clustering scientific documents aims to organise the set of documents into groups, such that documents in a single group are similar to each other in comparison to the documents in other groups (Lawrence, Bollacker, & Giles, 1999;Thijs and Glänzel, 2018). The clustering of scientific documents is crucial for several tasks, such as summarisation (Karimi et al, 2018), recommendation systems (Habib and Afzal, 2019), semantic understanding of scientific research (Shardlow et al, 2018), classification of scientific documents (Heffernan, K., & Teufel, 2018), and information retrieval systems for digital libraries (Safder & Hassan, 2019). However, the clustering of related scientific documents in growing scholar big data is a challenging task (Hassan and Haddawy, 2013;2015).…”