Scientometric Visualisation of the Documentary Array on Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

Valentina V Rykova; Tatiana Vladimirovna Busygina

doi:10.14429/djlit.39.4.14454

Valentina V Rykova State Public Scientific Technological Library, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Tatiana Vladimirovna Busygina State Public Scientific Technological Library, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0329-414X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.39.4.14454

Keywords: Scientometrics, Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, Web of science, CiteSpace knowledge domain visualisation, Research fronts

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of a documentary array on Semipalatinsk nuclear test site using analytical services of the Web of Science database. It identifies the authors, organisations, countries, leading in the publications number at the research field. Shows the journals in which articles on the studied problem are published most frequently. Enumerates scientific meetings where the problems of Semipalatinsk test site were discussed and identifies the most cited publications. Using CiteSpace software, the paper reveals and visualises research fronts and its intellectual bases by means clustering and cluster automated labelling of Semipalatinsk test site papers co-citation network. Document co-citation network and research clusters are revealed using CiteSpace software. It shows, that studies are related to research of medical and biological (genetic changes, diseases as a result of ionizing radiation) effects of nuclear tests and its effects on the environmental situation (degree of contamination of the territory); the effectiveness of various dosimetry methods to determine the degree of radiation exposure on living organisms and objects of inanimate nature. The work represents scientometric visualisation of the documentary array showing research trends on Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.

Author Biographies

Valentina V Rykova, State Public Scientific Technological Library, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Ms. Valentina Rykova, a senior researcher of the Department of Scientific Bibliography of the State Public Scientific- Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a specialist in bibliography, library information technology, research information support. Carried out the analysis of the documentary array on SNTS from WoS in this paper.

Tatiana Vladimirovna Busygina, State Public Scientific Technological Library, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Ms. Tatyana Busygina, PhD of Science, a leading researcher and the head of the Department of Scientific Bibliography of the State Public Scientific-Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a specialist in the library information technology, scientometric and bibliometric research, information visualisation using various tools. Carried out the visualisation and analysis of the documentary array on SNTS using CiteSpace for the article.