Table 1.
Overview of previous studies in which different techniques of text mining is used in science and/or technology.
| Year | Ref. | Field of study | Database | Text mining technique |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | (Glenisson, Glänzel, Janssens, & De Moor, 2005) | Scientometrics | Paper | Bibliometric analysis, categorization, clustering |
| 2005 | (Yoon & Park, 2005) | TFT-LCD | Patent | Factor analysis |
| 2006 | (de Miranda Santo, Coelho, dos Santos, & Fellows Filho, 2006) | Nanotechnology | Paper | Bibliometric analysis, text analysis, visualization |
| 2006 | (Hsu, Trappey, Trappey, & Hou, 2006) | Hand tool industry | Patent | Information extraction, clustering |
| 2007 | (Singh, Hu, & Roehl, 2007) | Human resource management | Paper | Clustering |
| 2007 | (Kostoff et al., 2007) | Technical articles | Paper | Clustering, bibliometric analysis |
| 2008 | (Kim, Choe, Choi, & Park, 2008) | Mobile service | Patent | Keyword extraction, text analysis |
| 2009 | (Lee, Yoon, & Park, 2009) | Personal digital assistant technology | Patent | Keyword extraction, PCA, patent mapping |
| 2008 | (Delen & Crossland, 2008) | Management information systems | Paper | Clustering |
| 2009 | (Choudhary, Oluikpe, Harding, & Carrillo, 2009) | Construction | Post project reports | Information retrieval and extraction, text analysis, categorization, summarization, visualization |
| 2010 | (Su & Lee, 2010) | Technology foresight | Paper | Visualization |
| 2010 | (Greenacre & Hastie, 2010) | Journal vaccine | Paper | Clustering, visualization |
| 2011 | (Kostoff, 2011) | Severe acute respiratory syndrome | Paper | Clustering, auto-correlation mapping, factor analysis |
| 2011 | (Trappey, Wu, Taghaboni-Dutta, & Trappey, 2011a) | Radio frequency identification (RFID) | Patent | Clustering |
| 2012 | (Choi, Park, Kang, Lee, & Kim, 2012) | Proton exchange fuel cell technology | Patent | Clustering |
| 2012 | (Cobo, López-Herrera, Herrera-Viedma, & Herrera, 2012) | Fuzzy sets theory | Paper | Information retrieval, visualization |
| 2012 | (Sunikka & Bragge, 2012) | Personalization & customization | Paper | Bibliometric analysis, visualization |
| 2013 | (Thorleuchter & Van den Poel, 2013) | German defence research program | R&D project | Classification |
| 2014 | (No, An, & Park, 2014) | Postage metering system | Patent | Clustering |
| 2014 | (Yoon, Park, & Coh, 2014) | LED technology | Patent | Text analysis, keyword extraction |
| 2014 | (Liew, Adhitya, & Srinivasan, 2014) | Main sectors of the industry | Reports | Keyword extraction |
| 2014 | (Jun, Park, & Jang, 2014) | News/ document & clustering | Patent-news | Clustering |
| 2015 | (Wang, Fang, & Chang, 2015) | Microalgal biofuel | Patent | Clustering |
| 2015 | (Kundu, Jain, Kumar, & Chandra, 2015) | Supply chain | Paper | Factor analysis |
| 2015 | (Moro, Cortez, & Rita, 2015) | Banking industry | Paper | Classification |