Evaluating the state-of-the-art in mapping research spaces: a Brazilian case study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03338v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 18:14:41 GMT
• Title: Evaluating the state-of-the-art in mapping research spaces: a Brazilian case study
• Authors: Francisco Galuppo Azevedo and Fabricio Murai
• Abstract summary: Two recent works propose methods for creating research maps from scientists' publication records. We evaluate these models' ability to predict whether a given entity will enter a new field. We conduct a case study to showcase how these models can be used to characterize science dynamics in the context of Brazil.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Scientific knowledge cannot be seen as a set of isolated fields, but as a highly connected network. Understanding how research areas are connected is of paramount importance for adequately allocating funding and human resources (e.g., assembling teams to tackle multidisciplinary problems). The relationship between disciplines can be drawn from data on the trajectory of individual scientists, as researchers often make contributions in a small set of interrelated areas. Two recent works propose methods for creating research maps from scientists' publication records: by using a frequentist approach to create a transition probability matrix; and by learning embeddings (vector representations). Surprisingly, these models were evaluated on different datasets and have never been compared in the literature. In this work, we compare both models in a systematic way, using a large dataset of publication records from Brazilian researchers. We evaluate these models' ability to predict whether a given entity (scientist, institution or region) will enter a new field w.r.t. the area under the ROC curve. Moreover, we analyze how sensitive each method is to the number of publications and the number of fields associated to one entity. Last, we conduct a case study to showcase how these models can be used to characterize science dynamics in the context of Brazil.

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