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Use case 03

See a field organise itself.

Understand a new field through its themes, its foundational publications and its emerging research fronts.

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fig. 02 · nodes: terms · edges: co-occurrence · clusters: themes

What you will do

Four moves, one workspace.

  1. Start from a sentence

    Describe the field in plain language. SciNodes plans the searches, merges the results and enriches every publication with open metadata.

  2. See the themes

    A term co-occurrence map shows the main topics and how they relate, from titles, abstracts and keywords.

  3. Find the foundations

    Co-citation reveals the works everyone cites together; bibliographic coupling reveals the fronts that are forming now.

  4. Explain what you see

    Select an unfamiliar term for a plain-language definition in your language, or ask the assistant about a cluster.

Features that carry it

Built from these.

Who it is for

People doing this today.

  • PhD students mapping a thesis field
  • Research groups entering a new area
Students studying in a large reading room
Mapping an unfamiliar field before the first review meeting.
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