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RESEARCH FRONTS
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The Research Fronts
Database contains bibliographic and citation
information on 20,000 clusters of related research papers
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These clusters of papers, which Thomson Scientific calls
research fronts, are identified using co-citation analysis
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This method establishes subject similarity among highly
cited documents by finding pairs of papers that are often
cited together by other research papers during a current
yearly time period.
FEATURES
The Research Fronts database is offered as a complete dataset or as a subset based on one or more disciplines, countries, institutions, journals or other criteria. The data file includes complete bibliographic information and citation counts on each core paper; Front names; and number and average year of all core papers within each Front. Optionally, a complementary file of the Citing Papers is available for each Front.
With the Research Fronts Database, one can:
- analyze emerging areas of research within broad fields and fast-moving areas of current research
- identify authors, institutions, and countries that are actively participating in these Fronts
- examine a Research Front consisting of recently citing papers and the core publications that tie them together through co-citations
- aggregate separate Research Fronts to examine a group of related specialties that make up a subfield
- further aggregate these sets of Research Fronts to see the discipline or field structure of science, and beyond that, a global map of current research
FORMATS
AND DELIVERY OPTIONS
The data are delivered on CD
in MS Access format
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