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Overview
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The rapidly expanding volume of scientific literature across a wide range of scientific fields and disciplines makes the task of distilling valuable knowledge ever more difficult. To overcome the drawbacks of current techniques for evaluating large bodies of scientific knowledge a Drexel researcher, Dr. Chaomei Chen, has developed a suite of advanced algorithms embodied in a software system called CiteSpace. CiteSpace is a Java application for visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in scientific literature. In particular, CiteSpace provides various functions to facilitate the understanding and interpretation of network patterns and historical patterns, including identifying the fast-growth topical areas, finding citation hotspots, decomposing a network into clusters, automatic labeling clusters with terms from citing articles and geospatial patterns of collaboration. CiteSpace supports structural and temporal analyses of a variety of networks derived from scientific publications, including collaboration networks, author co-citation networks, and document co-citation networks. It also supports networks of hybrid node types such as terms, institutions, and countries, and hybrid link types such as co-citation, co-occurrence, and directed citing links.
APPLICATIONS
TITLE: Applications
Knowledge Domain Visualization
Real-time Network Analysis
Competitor Monitoring
Patent Research
Automation of Network Interpretation
Drug Discovery
ADVANTAGES
TITLE:Advantages
Allows rapid detection and visualization of emerging trends and abrupt changes in scientific literature
Provides human-readable summaries of clusters of scientific research
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IP STATUS
Intellectual Property and Development Status
United States Issued Patent- 8,566,360
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United States Issued Patent- 8,935,291
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PUBLICATIONS
References
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Chen, C. (2006), CiteSpace II: Detecting and visualizing emerging trends and transient patterns in scientific literature. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 57: 359–377
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.20317/abstract
Commercialization Opportunities
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Contact Information
Robert B. McGrath, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Vice Provost
Office of Technology Commercialization
Drexel University
3180 Chestnut Street, Ste. 104
The Left Bank
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-895-0303
E-mail: RBM26@Drexel.edu
For Technical Information:
Chaomei Chen. Ph.D.
Professor
College of Computing and Informatics
3141 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Phone: 1-215- 895-6627