Urban agricultural history

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The first network I used was “Urban agricultural history.” This network brought back 529 documents. Of the 17,076 terms found, 308 occurred over 10 times. The terms that were deemed most relevant were quite surprising to me. Species richness, metal, species composition, lead, and stream were all stratified as most relevant with a score in […]

Urban agricultural history

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The first network I used was “Urban agricultural history.” This network brought back 529 documents. Of the 17,076 terms found, 308 occurred over 10 times. The terms that were deemed most relevant were quite surprising to me. Species richness, metal, species composition, lead, and stream were all stratified as most relevant with a score in […]

Word Embeddings

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I chose to look at the topic of word embeddings, as it was and still is a popular method for semantic analysis of texts. As output, word embeddings return words in a corpus that are used in similar/interchangeable contexts. Last time, I was looking at documents within the field of Slavic languages & literatures; however, […]

“Medievalism”

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After the difficulty I had with the Web of Science for the Citation Analysis Exercise, I was pleased that the first topic of interest I chose for the Network Analysis Exercise, “medievalism,” generated 482 results from the Web of Science. For this blog post, I will discuss two of the networks I created in VOSviewer […]

“Medievalism”

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After the difficulty I had with the Web of Science for the Citation Analysis Exercise, I was pleased that the first topic of interest I chose for the Network Analysis Exercise, “medievalism,” generated 482 results from the Web of Science. For this blog post, I will discuss two of the networks I created in VOSviewer […]

Academic Journals’ Word Networks

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Hello All, I originally struggled to get Web of Science to give me articles related to my interests. Entering terms like “Brazilian history” produced over 5,500 hits with articles concerning topics like the prevalence of the syphilis virus in female prisons, or the spatial niche modelling of five endemic cacti from the Brazilian Caatinga. Instead […]

Information Literacy in VosViewer

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For this exercise I chose the topic “information literacy” which had over 3,000 hits in Web of Science. I was expecting there to be quite a few hits for this, so was pleased by the number. Looking through the list, the results were varied in terms of related topics and disciplines. Importing things into VosViewer […]