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Trend analysis of academic research and technical development pertaining to gas hydrates

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Recently, many countries have shown considerable interest in gas hydrates as an alternative energy source and have conducted many studies for exploring, drilling, and producing gas hydrates. In this paper, we investigate international R&D trend in gas hydrates in order to provide research direction by applying text clustering to the published papers and patent documents. In particular, our study examines research in the United States, where the most active research has been undertaken; Japan, a country that leads in technological development; and China, which has enormous resources of gas hydrates. This study delineates these countries’ expertise and changing R&D trends in gas hydrates. Our findings can provide insights for academic research and technical development regarding gas hydrates.

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Acknowledgments

We appreciate the helpful discussion provided by Jungwoo Suh and Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant Funded by the Korea Government (MSIP) (2013R1A2A1A09004699).

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  1. Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women’s University, Cheongpa-dong 2-ga, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, 140-742, Republic of Korea

    Su Jin Seo

  2. Department of Information and Industrial Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seoul, 120-749, Republic of Korea

    Eun Jin Han & So Young Sohn

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Table 7 Keywords for searching the published papers and patent documents
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Table 8 The published paper keywords by cluster and by period
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Table 9 Patent keywords by cluster and by period
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Seo, S.J., Han, E.J. & Sohn, S.Y. Trend analysis of academic research and technical development pertaining to gas hydrates. Scientometrics 105, 905–920 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1709-0

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