LAPSE:2019.0957
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LAPSE:2019.0957
Analysis of the Trends in Biochemical Research Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)
August 15, 2019
Biochemistry has been broadly defined as “chemistry of molecules included or related to living systems”, but is becoming increasingly hard to be distinguished from other related fields. Targets of its studies evolve rapidly; some newly emerge, disappear, combine, or resurface themselves with a fresh viewpoint. Methodologies for biochemistry have been extremely diversified, thanks particularly to those adopted from molecular biology, synthetic chemistry, and biophysics. Therefore, this paper adopts topic modeling, a text mining technique, to identify the research topics in the field of biochemistry over the past twenty years and quantitatively analyze the changes in its trends. The results of the topic modeling analysis obtained through this study will provide a helpful tool for researchers, journal editors, publishers, and funding agencies to understand the connections among the diverse sub-fields in biochemical research and even see how the research topics branch out and integrate with other fields.
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biochemistry, LDA, research trend, topic modeling
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Kang HJ, Kim C, Kang K. Analysis of the Trends in Biochemical Research Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). (2019). LAPSE:2019.0957
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Kang HJ: College of Business Administration, Incheon National University, 119, Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 22012, Korea
Kim C: College of Business Administration, Incheon National University, 119, Academy-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 22012, Korea [ORCID]
Kang K: Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, 1732, Deogyeong-daero, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 130-701, Korea [ORCID]
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Processes
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7
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6
Article Number
E379
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2019
Publication Date
2019-06-18
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2227-9717
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