DISCOVERING THE INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE OF THE NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY
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Date
2020
Authors
Kairatbekkyzy, Madina
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Aberystwyth University
Abstract
A purpose of this study is to identify key knowledge and experts, and to map an intellectual structure of research of a higher education institution. This study aims to answer the following question “What is the intellectual structure of the Nazarbayev University?” by focusing on scholarly publishing only. The objectives of this study are 1. to identify the core authors (researchers) and keywords that represent the research topics in which the Nazarbayev University may have subject knowledge and expertise; 2. to visualize the intellectual structure of the Nazarbayev University using the data found.
The Nazarbayev University’s intellectual structure was detected and mapped based on researchers’ publications published from 2010 to 2018 in journals indexed in the bibliometric databases Scopus and Web of Science. A formal concept analysis (FCA) based approach proposed by Liu et al. (2015) was employed to select core authors and keywords, and to model the intellectual structure of the University. The FCA-based approach was proposed by Chinese and American information professionals to identify the intellectual structure of the Library and Information Science discipline. The intellectual structure of the Nazarbayev University was identified using this approach by applying some changes.
In the result of this study, 239 core authors and 1240 keywords were selected, and based on the data extracted the formal concept of the Nazarbayev University was constructed. The general concept lattice corresponding to the formal concept was displayed by using an open source tool.
Additionally, this proposes the possible areas to use the map and data of this study in the Nazarbayev University, as well as the further research to conduct.
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ACA, FCA, the author co-citation analysis, the formal concept analysis, Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES, intellectual structure, Type of access: Open Access
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Kairatbekkyzy, Madina. (2020). DISCOVERING THE INTELLECTUAL STRUCTURE OF THE NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY (Unpublished master's thesis). Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom