An automatic and association-based procedure for hierarchical publication subject categorization

• Published in: Journal of informetrics Vol. 18; no. 1; p. 101466
• Main Authors: Urdiales, Cristina, Guzmán, Eduardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2024
• Subjects: Association rules; Journal studies; Scientific publication subject categorization; Association rules; Journal studies; Scientific publication subject categorization

•We propose a novel procedure for publication subject hierarchical categorization based on the repetition and absence of relevant terms in association rules defined among sets of individual topics.•Our topics are extracted from the category list provided by the SCImago Journal Rank dataset in combin...