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The Term “Bibliometric Analysis” and Its Interaction with Other High-Frequency Keywords in the Topics of SciVal

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The results of a study of high-frequency key terms in the subject of SciVal (Scopus) are presented, focusing on the term “bibliometric analysis.” The array of high-frequency key terms collected for May to November 2022 from 181 SciVal topics, in which the term “Bibliometric Analysis” appeared as the high-frequency key term, was analyzed by three approximately equal groups of co-words, formed by the number of total intersections in the topics. This division of the high-frequency key terms fits well into S. Bradford’s law, due to which the “core” of the high-frequency key terms was formed on the topics under study. As a result, the topics closest in content were identified. The results of our study form a contribution to the understanding of the relationships between different research topics by analyzing the dynamics of keywords, confirming the hypothesis that using networks of keywords from different disciplines, you can identify common features between them and the number of matches between keywords affects the strength of relationships between topics.

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  1. SciVal is an analytical tool based on Scopus data: https://www.scival.com/

  2. Hereinafter, HKT refer to the keywords displayed in the top lists for each SciVal topic (up to 100 words per topic). Lists of these terms are available in publication cards in Scopus in the section SciVal Themes.

  3. Access for Russian users has been closed from January 1, 2023 due to the sanctions policy of the European Union.

  4. S. Bradford found that the number of magazines in the third zone will be approximately as many times greater than in the second zone, as the number of titles in the second zone is greater than in the first. We denote T1 as the number of magazines in the first zone, T2 the number in the second zone, and T3 in the third zone. If n is the ratio of the number of magazines in the second zone to the number of magazines in the 1st zone, then the pattern discovered by S. Bradford can be written as follows: T1: T2: T3 = 1 : n : n2 , or: T3: T2 = T2: T1 = n [29, 30].

  5. For the calculation formula, see the “Methodology and research methods” section of this article

  6. The prominence of SciVal topics is expressed as a “percentile” indicator (“topic prominence percentile,” Eng.), which is determined by the Scopus system

  7. The key phrase is assigned a “relevance” value ranging from 0 to 1.

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Mokhnacheva, Y.V. The Term “Bibliometric Analysis” and Its Interaction with Other High-Frequency Keywords in the Topics of SciVal. Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 57, 284–295 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105523050060

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