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This research takes the academic articles in the Web of Science’s core collection database as a corpus to draw a series of knowledge maps, to explore the relationships, connectivity, distribution, and evolution among their keywords with respect...
In the post-war period before computers were readily available, urgent demand for scientific and industrial development stimulated research and development (R&D) that led to the birth of the information retrieval thesaurus. This article traces the...
Although classification has been an important aspect of astronomy since stellar spectroscopy in the late nineteenth century, to date no comprehensive classification system has existed for all classes of objects in the universe. Here we present such...
Soil classification is a long-debated issue. Despite the accumulation of empirical data and appearance of modern computer technologies, soil classification problems remain unresolved and relevant for discussion. The main problem is the creation of a...