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Differentiating, describing, and visualizing scientific space: A novel approach to the analysis of published scientific abstracts Scientometrics AkadЁ¦miai KiadЁ®, co-published with Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. ISSN 0138-9130 (Print) 1588-2861 (Online) Volume 80, Number 2 / §Ў§У§Ф§е§г§д 2009 §Ф. DOI 10.1007/s11192-008-2070-3 pp 385-406 Differentiating, describing, and visualizing scientific space: A novel approach to the analysis of published scientific abstracts Eli M. Blatt1 (1) Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (2) 350 Alabama Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA Received: 2 April 2008 Published online: 16 April 2009 Abstract This paper will develop and demonstrate a novel method for analyzing scientific indexes called Latent Semantic Differentiation. Using two distinct datasets comprised of scientific abstracts, it will demonstrate the procedureЎЇs ability to identify the dominant themes, cluster the articles accordingly, visualize the results, and provide a qualitative description of each cluster. Combined, the analyses will highlight the utility of the procedure for scientific document indexing, structuring university departments, facilitating grant administration, and augmenting ongoing research on scientific citation. Because the procedure is extensible to any textual domain, there are numerous avenues for continued research both within the sciences and beyond.
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