Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Mapping knowledge domains is of importance to understand how a discipline develops and how publications, authors, journals and/or affiliations relate to each other in the discipline. Yet, maps without rigorous assessment cannot offer convincing evidence to research policy and decision making. This brief communication discusses the elements to be assessed in a typical assessment task and potential quantitative and qualitative strategies for the assessment of mapping knowledge domains. At the end of this communication, I also point out potential future outlooks in mapping knowledge domains and their assessments.
Source: Journal of Information Science
Author: Yi Bu
Institution: Peking University
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: G1859020638, G5679173375, G8093590149
OpenAlex ID: W4409443622