A Topic Modeling Study on Contemporary Latent Topics and Current Trends in Open Access LIS Journals listed in DOAJ
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2024-09-19
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INFLIBNET Centre Gandhinagar
Abstract
The study employed Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling to analyze bibliographic data (Titles, Abstracts, and Keywords) of 1640 articles published during 2019-2023 from Open Access LIS journals listed in the DOAJ platform and indexed in Scopus database. The study utilized R statistical platform and used coherence method to determine optimal number of topics k=8. This analysis unveiled eight latent topics, with Topic 8 'Library Management' emerging as the most prevalent topic with prevalence score of 23.291. Moreover, Topic 6 'Knowledge Management' and Topic 4 'Bibliometrics' were identified as stable and popular topics, with respective Annual Growth Rates (AAGR) of 15.99% and 12.39% in OA LIS literature.
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Open Access,, Topic Modeling,, LDA,, Journals