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The Research Fronts database contains bibliographic and citation information on 20,000 clusters of related research papers. These clusters of papers, which Thomson Scientific calls research fronts, are identified using co-citation analysis. This method establishes subject similarity among documents by finding pairs of papers, cited above a minimum threshold (6 times) that are often cited together by other research papers during the last complete year. Example: using 2004 — the complete year would be January 1 through December 31, 2004.
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The Research Fronts database is offered as a complete dataset or as a subset based on one or more disciplines, countries, institutions, journals or other criteria. The data file includes complete bibliographic information and citation counts on each core paper; Front names; and number and average year of all core papers within each Front. Optionally, a complementary file of the Citing Papers is available for each Front.
With the Research Fronts database, one can:
- analyze emerging areas of research within broad fields and fast-moving areas of current research
- identify authors, institutions, and countries that are actively participating in these Fronts
- examine a Research Front consisting of recently citing papers and the core publications that tie them together through co-citations
- aggregate separate Research Fronts to examine a group of related specialties that make up a subfield
- further aggregate these sets of Research Fronts to see the discipline or field structure of science, and beyond that, a global map of current research
Formats & Delivery Options
The data are delivered on CD ROM in MS Access format |
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