Basurto-Flores R, Guzmán-Vargas L, Velasco S, Medina A, Calvo Hernandez A
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas, 07340 Ciudad de México, Mexico.
2Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain.
Scientometrics. 2018;117(1):123-139. doi: 10.1007/s11192-018-2860-1. Epub 2018 Aug 6.
Our aim is to illustrate how the thermodynamics-based concept of entropy has spread across different areas of knowledge by analyzing the distribution of papers, citations and the use of words related to entropy in the predefined Scopus categories. To achieve this, we analyze the Scopus papers database related to entropy research during the last 20 years, collecting 750 K research papers which directly contain or mention the word entropy. First, some well-recognized works which introduced novel entropy-related definitions are monitored. Then we compare the hierarchical structure which emerges for the different cases of association, which can be in terms of citations among papers, classification of papers in categories or key words in abstracts and titles. Our study allowed us to evaluate, to some extent, the utility and versatility of concepts such as entropy to permeate in different areas of science. Furthermore, the use of specific terms (key words) in titles and abstracts provided a useful way to account for the interaction between areas in the category research space.
我们的目标是通过分析预定义的Scopus类别中与熵相关的论文分布、引用情况以及词汇使用，来说明基于热力学的熵概念是如何在不同知识领域中传播的。为实现这一目标，我们分析了过去20年里Scopus中与熵研究相关的论文数据库，收集了75万篇直接包含或提及“熵”这个词的研究论文。首先，监测一些引入了与熵相关新定义的知名著作。然后，我们比较了不同关联情况下出现的层次结构，这些关联可以是论文之间的引用、论文在类别中的分类，或者摘要和标题中的关键词。我们的研究在一定程度上使我们能够评估熵等概念在不同科学领域渗透的实用性和通用性。此外，标题和摘要中特定术语（关键词）的使用为解释类别研究空间中各领域之间的相互作用提供了一种有用的方法。
