The purpose of this study is to verify the following two hypotheses by using a test collection of 3.815 documents on the subject of chemistry. First hypothesis is that a Markov chain model can be used t9 describe and predict authors' movements among s...
The purpose of this study is to verify the following two hypotheses by using a test collection of 3.815 documents on the subject of chemistry. First hypothesis is that a Markov chain model can be used t9 describe and predict authors' movements among subareas of a discipline. Second hypothesis is that a transition matrix of the Markov chain can be applied to describ the intellectual structure of a discipline en the multidimensional space. The results of this study have shown that the Markov chain is a good model to be used to study the movement of korean chemists in 7 subtopics in chemistry and understand the intellectual structure of chemistry.