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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2013.2.3.187

Understanding of Structural Changes of Keyword Networks in the Computer Engineering Field  

Kwon, Yung-Keun (울산대학교 전기공학부)
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KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering / v.2, no.3, 2013 , pp. 187-194 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, there have been many trials to analyze characteristics of research trends through a structural analysis of keyword networks in various fields. However, most previous studies have mainly focused on structural analysis harbored in some static networks and there is a lack of research on changes of such networks structure with time. In this paper, we constructed annual keyword networks by using a database of papers published in the international computer engineering-field journals from 2002 through 2011, and examined the changes of them. As a result, it was shown that most keywords in a network are preserved in the network of the next year, and their degree of connectivity and the average weight of the connections were higher and smaller, respectively, than those of the keywords which are not preserved. In addition, when a keyword network shifted to one of the next year, the connections between keywords were more likely to be removed than preserved, and the average weight of the removal connections was higher than that of the preserved ones. These results imply that the keywords are not changed over time but their connections are very likely to be changed; and there is apparent differences between the preserved and removal groups of keywords/connections with respect to degree and weights of connections. All these results are consistently observed over the ten-year datasets and they can be important principles in understanding the structural changes of the keyword networks.
Keywords
Keyword Network; Network Structure Change; Research Trend Analysis;
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