WHAT DO CROATIAN SCIENTIST WRITE ABOUT?
A SOCIAL AND CONCEPTUAL NETWORK ANALYSIS
OF THE CROATIAN SCIENTIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

Markus Schatten

Faculty of Organization and Informatics - University of Zagreb
Varaždin, Croatia

INDECS 11(2), 190-208, 2013
DOI 10.7906/indecs.11.2.2
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Received: 5 February 2013
Accepted: 11 March 2013
Regular article

ABSTRACT

This article analyses the Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) as a social application using a number of different approaches. By analysing and visualizing the conceptual network the core of keywords is determined for each scientific field: biomedical sciences, biotechnology, social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and technical sciences. Through the interpretation of core concepts by meta-data from another social application (Wikipedia) it is concluded about the disproportion of interpretative capabilities of two social systems: the Croatian scientific community and the public. Additionally through a social network analysis between scientific areas according to a social (scientific collaboration) and conceptual (keyword co-affiliation) another disproportion is revealed regarding interdisciplinary research.


KEY WORDS

Croatian scientific bibliography, social network analysis, conceptual network analysis, visualization, Wikipedia, system theory


CLASSIFICATION

APA2910, 3040, 4100, 4120
JEL:C31, D85
PACS:64.60.aq, 07.05.Mh


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