Science and Technology Text Mining: Text Mining of the Journal Cortex

Abstract

Background:The stated mission of Cortex is "the study of the inter-relations of the nervous system and behavior, particularly as these are reflected in the effects of brain lesions on cognitive functions." The purpose of this report is to explore the relationship between the stated mission and the executed mission as reflected by the characteristics of papers published in Cortex. In addition, we examine whether the results and conclusions of an analysis of this kind are affected by the level of description of the published papers.

Science and Technology Text Mining: Global Technology Watch

“…Visual categorization of words/ phrases allows technical taxonomies (classification schemes) to be generated (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10). Statistical clustering of words/ phrases (concept clustering), using factor analyses or partitional or hierarchical aggregation clustering schemes, also allows technical taxonomies to be generated (6)(7)(8)(9)(10). By categorizing phrases and counting frequencies (6)(7)(8), or by using statistical (or manual) document clustering (8,10), S&T text mining can also be used to estimate global levels of emphasis in technical areas or subareas.…”

“…(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10). Much of our present effort is focused on understanding and developing clustering approaches that will sharpen the groupings of common themes and identify theme linkages from a variety of perspectives.…”

Tracking and Mining the COVID-19 Research Literature

“…LBD seeks to infer novel, credible, and informative knowledge by explicitly or implicitly associating two or more disparate literature concepts (Bruza and Weeber, 2008 ; Ittipanuvat et al, 2014 ). Its benefits have been pursued by bibliometric researchers and applied for a variety of practical issues, especially in biomedical domains, such as the exploration of potential treatments or gene candidates for diseases (Kostoff et al, 2018 ; Wu et al, 2020 ) and uncovering new therapeutic uses for existing drugs (Ding et al, 2013 ). However, despite high potentials in interdisciplinary research (Small, 2010 ), LBD still entails a set of problem-driven and/or domain-specific approaches.…”