Purpose: In recent years, one can witness a trend in research evaluation to measure the impact on society or attention to research by society(beyond science). We address the following question: can Twitter be meaningf...Purpose: In recent years, one can witness a trend in research evaluation to measure the impact on society or attention to research by society(beyond science). We address the following question: can Twitter be meaningfully used for the mapping of public and scientific discourses?Design/methodology/approach: Recently, Haunschild et al.(2019) introduced a new network-oriented approach for using Twitter data in research evaluation. Such a procedure can be used to measure the public discussion around a specific field or topic. In this study, we used all papers published in the Web of Science(WoS, Clarivate Analytics) subject category Information Science & Library Science to explore the publicly discussed topics from the area of library and information science(LIS) in comparison to the topics used by scholars in their publications in this area.Findings: The results show that LIS papers are represented rather well on Twitter. Similar topics appear in the networks of author keywords of all LIS papers, not tweeted LIS papers, and tweeted LIS papers. The networks of the author keywords of all LIS papers and not tweeted LIS papers are most similar to each other.Research limitations: Only papers published since 2011 with DOI were analyzed.Practical implications: Although Twitter data do not seem to be useful for quantitative research evaluation, it seems that Twitter data can be used in a more qualitative way for mapping of public and scientific discourses.Originality/value: This study explores a rather new methodology for comparing public and scientific discourses.展开更多
Purpose-The purpose of this article is to conduct a main path analysis of 627 articles on the theme of Pythagorean fuzzy sets(PFSs)in the Web of Science(WoS)from 2013 to 2020,to provide a conclusive and comprehensive ...Purpose-The purpose of this article is to conduct a main path analysis of 627 articles on the theme of Pythagorean fuzzy sets(PFSs)in the Web of Science(WoS)from 2013 to 2020,to provide a conclusive and comprehensive analysis for researchers in this field,and to provide a study on preliminary understanding of PFSs.Design/methodology/approach-The research topic of Pythagorean fuzzy fields,through keyword extraction and describing the changes in characteristic themes over the past eight years,are firstly examined.Main path analysis,including local and global main paths and key route paths,is then used to reveal the most influential relationships between papers and to explore the trajectory and structure of knowledge transmission.Findings-The application of Pythagorean fuzzy theory to the field of decision-making has been popular,and combinations of the traditional Pythagorean fuzzy decision-making method with other fuzzy sets have attracted widespread attention in recent years.In addition,over the past eight years,research interest has shifted to different types of PFSs,such as interval-valued PFSs.Research limitations/implications-This paper implicates to investigate the growth in certain trends in the literature and to explore the main paths of knowledge dissemination in the domain of PFSs in recent years.Originality/value-This paper aims to identify the topics in which researchers are currently interested,to help scholars to keep abreast of the latest research on PFSs.展开更多
文摘Purpose: In recent years, one can witness a trend in research evaluation to measure the impact on society or attention to research by society(beyond science). We address the following question: can Twitter be meaningfully used for the mapping of public and scientific discourses?Design/methodology/approach: Recently, Haunschild et al.(2019) introduced a new network-oriented approach for using Twitter data in research evaluation. Such a procedure can be used to measure the public discussion around a specific field or topic. In this study, we used all papers published in the Web of Science(WoS, Clarivate Analytics) subject category Information Science & Library Science to explore the publicly discussed topics from the area of library and information science(LIS) in comparison to the topics used by scholars in their publications in this area.Findings: The results show that LIS papers are represented rather well on Twitter. Similar topics appear in the networks of author keywords of all LIS papers, not tweeted LIS papers, and tweeted LIS papers. The networks of the author keywords of all LIS papers and not tweeted LIS papers are most similar to each other.Research limitations: Only papers published since 2011 with DOI were analyzed.Practical implications: Although Twitter data do not seem to be useful for quantitative research evaluation, it seems that Twitter data can be used in a more qualitative way for mapping of public and scientific discourses.Originality/value: This study explores a rather new methodology for comparing public and scientific discourses.
基金the financial support by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LQ20G010001)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2020M673195)National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71671165).
文摘Purpose-The purpose of this article is to conduct a main path analysis of 627 articles on the theme of Pythagorean fuzzy sets(PFSs)in the Web of Science(WoS)from 2013 to 2020,to provide a conclusive and comprehensive analysis for researchers in this field,and to provide a study on preliminary understanding of PFSs.Design/methodology/approach-The research topic of Pythagorean fuzzy fields,through keyword extraction and describing the changes in characteristic themes over the past eight years,are firstly examined.Main path analysis,including local and global main paths and key route paths,is then used to reveal the most influential relationships between papers and to explore the trajectory and structure of knowledge transmission.Findings-The application of Pythagorean fuzzy theory to the field of decision-making has been popular,and combinations of the traditional Pythagorean fuzzy decision-making method with other fuzzy sets have attracted widespread attention in recent years.In addition,over the past eight years,research interest has shifted to different types of PFSs,such as interval-valued PFSs.Research limitations/implications-This paper implicates to investigate the growth in certain trends in the literature and to explore the main paths of knowledge dissemination in the domain of PFSs in recent years.Originality/value-This paper aims to identify the topics in which researchers are currently interested,to help scholars to keep abreast of the latest research on PFSs.
