Eight journals over eight decades: a computational topic-modeling approach to contemporary philosophy of science

Malaterre, Christophe; Lareau, Francis; Pulizzotto, Davide; St-Onge, Jonathan

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“…e lemmatization method was also applied to make different forms of uniform words. Lemmatization is replacing words or their basic dictionary forms with the conjugated forms of words [24]. Lemmatization also considers a part of the roles of words in the text and uses the dictionary of words to convert the basic form of words.…”

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Detecting Latent Topics and Trends in Global Publications on Brucellosis Disease Using Text Mining

Dastani

Mardaneh

Pouresmaeil

2022

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

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Purpose. Brucellosis is widespread globally and one of the most important zoonotic diseases. Therefore, to fully comprehend the disease and discover ways of prevention and treatment, researchers have conducted some research in this field. Hence, this study will focus on the topic trend of scientific publications of brucellosis. Methods. This study is an applied research using text mining techniques with an analytical approach. The statistical population of the present research is all global publications related to brucellosis. For data extraction, the Scopus citation database was used in the period from 1900 to 2020. The main keywords for search strategy design have been extracted from consultation with thematic specialists and using MESH. Python programming language has been applied to analyze data and implement text mining algorithms. Results. According to results, eight main topics of “Prevention,” “Clinical symptoms,” “Diagnosis,” “Control,” “Treatment,” “Immunology,” “Structural Features,” and “Pathogenicity” have been identified for brucellosis publications. Moreover, the topics “Prevention” and “Pathogenicity” had the highest and lowest prevalence in the field of brucellosis over time, respectively. Conclusion. This study has revealed the topics published in the global publications of brucellosis; the findings can be useful for research centers and universities in determining research priorities in the field of brucellosis.

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Detecting Latent Topics and Trends in Global Publications on Brucellosis Disease Using Text Mining

Dastani

Mardaneh

Pouresmaeil

2022

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

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“…For example, whereas experimental philosophy often seeks to determine the contours of our concepts indirectly, by asking subjects to report their intuitions about hypothetical cases, survey methods might be employed in an attempt to determine them more directly, by asking subjects whether they agree or disagree with various claims about memory (Finley, Naaz, & Goh, 2018;Lynn, Evans, Laurence, & Lilienfeld, 2015;Magnussen et al, 2006;Magnussen & Melinder, 2012;Simons & Chabris, 2011). Methods such as topic modelling likewise hold considerable promise (see Malaterre, Chartier, & Pulizzotto, 2019;Malaterre, Pulizzotto, & Lareau, 2020;Malaterre, Lareau, Pulizzotto, & St-Onge, 2021;Weatherson, no date). Our focus here, however, is squarely on methods aimed at collecting judgments about cases.…”

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Experimental philosophy of memory

Michaelian

Dranseika

Álvarez

2022

Acta Sci. Human Soc. Sci.

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Experimental philosophy is now some twenty years old and has a large body of work to its credit. Little of this work focusses directly on memory, but it has, as the philosophy of memory has come into its own over the last several years, become increasingly clear that there are numerous questions about the concept of memory to which the tools developed by experimental philosophers might profitably be applied. By describing a sample of these questions, explaining how and why they might be approached using experimental methods, and providing a snapshot of published and in-progress experimental work, this article makes a case for experimental philosophy of memory.

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“…In quantitative science studies, topic models are often used diachronically, to examine the ways research foci have changed over time (Han, 2020;Malaterre, Lareau et al 2020;Rehs, the documents in the corpus that are most relevant or related to a given document (or search query). Boyack, Newman et al (2011) compare several different clustering methods based on different similarity scores, in this sense, including one derived from topic modeling.…”

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“…For example, Nichols (2014) assigned almost all topics from a previously fitted 1000-topic model to NSF directorates (which roughly correspond to high-level scientific fields, e.g., biology vs. computer science vs. social and behavioral science), then calculated interdisciplinarity scores based on whether these topics indicated interdisciplinarity within or between directorates. Malaterre et al (2020) used a corpus comprising articles from eight journals within a single field, philosophy of science, and interpreted the 25-topic model in terms of research areas.…”

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Productivity and interdisciplinary impacts of Organized Research Units

Hicks

2021

Quantitative Science Studies

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Organized Research Units (ORUs) are non-departmental units utilized by US research universities to support interdisciplinary research initiatives, among other goals. This study examined the impacts of ORUs at one large public research university, the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), using a large corpus of journal article metadata and abstracts for both faculty affiliated with UCD ORUs and a comparison set of other faculty. Using regression analysis, I find that ORUs appeared to increase the number of coauthors of affiliated faculty, but did not appear to directly affect publication or citation counts. Next, I frame interdisciplinarity in terms of a notion of discursive space, and use a topic model approach to situate researchers within this discursive space. The evidence generally indicates that ORUs promoted multidisciplinarity rather than interdisciplinarity. In the conclusion, drawing on work in philosophy of science on inter- and multidisciplinarity, I argue that multidisciplinarity is not necessarily inferior to interdisciplinarity.

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Eight journals over eight decades: a computational topic-modeling approach to contemporary philosophy of science

Cited by 15 publications

References 33 publications

Detecting Latent Topics and Trends in Global Publications on Brucellosis Disease Using Text Mining

Detecting Latent Topics and Trends in Global Publications on Brucellosis Disease Using Text Mining

Experimental philosophy of memory

Productivity and interdisciplinary impacts of Organized Research Units

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