Introduction: Tracing the History of a Discipline Through Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of Scientific Literature

Abstract
The chapters of this book are concerned with learning of the evolution of ideas (theories, concepts, methods, and application domains) and of the history of a discipline, by means of the temporal evolution of word occurrences in papers published by scientific journals. The work carried out for each of the areas involved in the project (philosophy, sociology, psychology, linguistics, statistics) pursued different objectives: to obtain a first...
Paper Details
Title
Introduction: Tracing the History of a Discipline Through Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of Scientific Literature
Published Date
Jan 1, 2018
Pages
1 - 22
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