Case 5: Research positioning

This term map visualizes different topics that are being covered by publications of a group of researchers active in the Logistic research area. The circles with hot colors (e.g., yellow and red) represent the expertise area of a specific researcher.

What

indicates what terms the research outcome of a researcher is focused on

Why

to understand the focus area of a researcher and to find the focal area for potential collaboration

Who

PhD candidates, researchers, group leaders and policy makers

How

1. collect your data from an appropriate data source
2. generate a corpus and a score file such that in the score file you indicate whether each of the corpus file documents belongs to the author under focus or not
3. generate the term map based on text data (i.e., corpus and score)
4. use the overlay visualization feature to color the terms such that the color indicates how often the term is mentioned in publications of the author
5. use the VOSviewer screenshot to export your map

Data

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List of files:

corpus.txt
score.txt
map.txt
net.txt
visualization_position.png