Researching Digital Society: Using Data-Mining to Identify Relevant Themes from an Open Access Journal

Judith Schoßböck; Noella Edelmann; Nina Rizun

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-82824-0_4

Researching Digital Society: Using Data-Mining to Identify Relevant Themes from an Open Access Journal

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Open Access scholarly literature is scientific output free from economic barriers and copyright restrictions. Using a case study approach, data mining methods and qualitative analysis, the scholarly output and the meta-data of the Open Access eJournal of e-Democracy and Open Government during the time interval 2009–2020 was analysed. Our study was able to identify the most prominent research topics (defined as thematic clusters) of the journal, their evolution over time and how these were influenced by journal management factors. This kind of analysis helps editors to develop an editorial strategy, decide on the thematic development of the journal and address the expectations of future authors of the journal. It further can provide insights about research themes and trends within a scholarly community and their development over time

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Judith Schoßböck Ph.D
- Danube University KremsKrems an der DonauAustria
Noella Edelmann PhD
- Danube University KremsKrems an der DonauAustria
Nina Rizun dr

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DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/978-3-030-82824-0_4
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Category:: Conference activity
Type:: publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
Title of issue:: Electronic Participation strony 43 - 54
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2021
Bibliographic description:: Schoßböck J., Edelmann N., Rizun N.: Researching Digital Society: Using Data-Mining to Identify Relevant Themes from an Open Access Journal// Electronic Participation/ : , 2021, s.43-54
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1007/978-3-030-82824-0_4
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