International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

Heuristical Research on Twelve Decades of Information and Knowledge Creation Utilizing Python and NLP

Document Type : Articles

Authors

Farshid Danesh 1
Meisam Dastani 2

1 Assistant Prof., Research Department of Information Management, Islamic World Science & Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC), Shiraz, Iran

2 PhD in Knowledge and Information Science (Information Retrieval), Director of Statistics and Information Technology, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonbad, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22034/ijism.2023.1977962.0
Abstract
Publications on knowledge and information creation have grown significantly due to their importance in information and knowledge management. This study aims to discover and analyze the hidden thematic topics of information and knowledge creation publications. The research applied was performed using text mining techniques and an analytical approach. The research population comprises publications on knowledge and information creation from 1900 to 2021, retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (WOSCC). The data were analyzed by Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm and Python Programming Language. Forty-eight thousand two hundred sixty-five documents were retrieved and analyzed. "Data production," "Health seeking behavior," "Human Brain and Information processing," "Decision-making models," "Knowledge production," "Information needs," and "Digital Literacy" are among the essential topics in order of publication rate. The results indicated that the spectrum of the fourteen topics covered a variety of dimensions, including "data and knowledge creation," "information processing," "information needs and behavior," "digital literacy," and "critical thinking." The study's findings have shown the conceptual relationships between textual data and the presentation of the knowledge structure of information and knowledge creation. Based on this, it can be concluded that the creation of knowledge and information includes human mental and behavioral processes concerning knowledge.
 

Keywords

Knowledge Creation
Information Creation
Data Creation
Data Mining
Text Mining
Topic Modeling
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)
 
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International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)
Volume 21, Issue 3
Summer 2023
Pages 363-382

  • Receive Date 26 September 2022
  • Revise Date 01 July 2023
  • Accept Date 11 June 2023

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