Meta Data: Big Data Research Evolving across Disciplines, Players, and Topics

Title: Meta Data: Big Data Research Evolving across Disciplines, Players, and Topics
Format: Conference
Publication Date: August 2015
Description: © 2015 IEEE.We present a meta-Analysis of Big Data research activity since 2009. Our purpose here is to present 'tech mining' (bibliometric and text analyses of research publication abstract record sets) to provide a research landscape of who is doing what, where, and when. Our larger purpose is to help Forecast Innovation Pathways for big data & analytics over the coming decade. We download 7006 research publication abstracts from Web of Science resulting from a search algorithm devised to recall a high percentage of core Big Data research and a moderate percentage of peripherally related research (fair recall). We find interesting engagement of different disciplines in Big Data over time. On a national level, the USA and China dominate these fundamental research publications to a striking degree. Mapping topics presents interesting evidence on what topics are emerging in this dynamic field.
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Citation: 262 - 267. DOI 10.1109/BigDataCongress.2015.44.
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