A Study of Scientometric Methods to Identify Emerging Technologies

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011

OSTI ID:1019340

Abercrombie, Robert K ^[1]; Udoeyop, Akaninyene W ^[1]

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1. ORNL

This work examines a scientometric model that tracks the emergence of an identified technology from initial discovery (via original scientific and conference literature), through critical discoveries (via original scientific, conference literature and patents), transitioning through Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) and ultimately on to commercial application. During the period of innovation and technology transfer, the impact of scholarly works, patents and on-line web news sources are identified. As trends develop, currency of citations, collaboration indicators, and on-line news patterns are identified. The combinations of four distinct and separate searchable on-line networked sources (i.e., scholarly publications and citation, worldwide patents, news archives, and on-line mapping networks) are assembled to become one collective network (a dataset for analysis of relations). This established network becomes the basis from which to quickly analyze the temporal flow of activity (searchable events) for the example subject domain we investigated.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1019340
• Resource Relation: Conference: 13th International Conference of the Internationl Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI 2011 Conference), Durban, South Africa, 20110704, 20110707
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
ORNL
INTERNET
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
Methods and techniques
Publication Analysis
Citation Analysis
Patent Analysis
Web News Source Analysis
Indicators
Webometrics
Journal
databases and electronic publications Analysis