A citation-based map of concepts in invasion biology
A citation-based map of concepts in invasion biology
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DOI：
10.3897/neobiota.47.32608
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发表时间：
2019-06-19
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5.1
通讯作者：
Jeschke, Onathan M.
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作者：
Enders, Martin;Havemann, Frank;Jeschke, Onathan M.
入侵生物学在过去的几十年里迅速发展，以至于现在比喻地充斥着出版物、概念和假说。在专家中，关于入侵概念之间的关系没有明确的共识，几乎没有人再对文献有一个很好的概述。对于其他研究领域，也可以进行类似的观察。科学需要新的导航工具，以便研究领域内外的研究人员以及科学记者、学生、教师、实践者、政策制定者和其他对该领域感兴趣的人能够更容易地理解其关键思想。例如，这种导航工具可以是一个研究领域的主要概念和假设的地图。应用文献计量学方法，我们为入侵生物学创建了这样的地图。我们分析了过去20年的研究论文，引用了35种常见的入侵假说中的至少两种。共引分析产生了四组不同的假设。这些簇可以描述入侵生物学的主要方向，并解释生物入侵背后的基本驱动力。我们在这里概述的入侵生物学方法可以很容易地应用于其他研究领域。
Invasion biology has been quickly expanding in the last decades so that it is now metaphorically flooded with publications, concepts, and hypotheses. Among experts, there is no clear consensus about the relationships between invasion concepts, and almost no one seems to have a good overview of the literature anymore. Similar observations can be made for other research fields. Science needs new navigation tools so that researchers within and outside of a research field as well as science journalists, students, teachers, practitioners, policy-makers, and others interested in the field can more easily understand its key ideas. Such navigation tools could, for example, be maps of the major concepts and hypotheses of a research field. Applying a bibliometric method, we created such maps for invasion biology. We analysed research papers of the last two decades citing at least two of 35 common invasion hypotheses. Co-citation analysis yields four distinct clusters of hypotheses. These clusters can describe the main directions in invasion biology and explain basic driving forces behind biological invasions. The method we outline here for invasion biology can be easily applied for other research fields.