Detecting Dynamics of Hot Topics with Alluvial Diagrams: A Timeline Visualization

Purpose: In this paper, we combined the method of co-word analysis and alluvial diagram to detect hot topics and illustrate their dynamics. Design/methodology/approach: Articles in the field of scientometrics were chosen as research cases in this study. A time-sliced co-word network was generated a...

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Main Authors: Wenjing Ruan, Haiyan Hou, Zhigang Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Data and Information Science
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Online Access:https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jdis.2017.2.issue-3/jdis-2017-0013/jdis-2017-0013.xml?format=INT