Result: Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain

Title:
Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain
Authors:
REID, Edna F, CHEN, Hsinchun
Source:
Information security in the knowledge economyInternational journal of human-computer studies. 65(1):42-56
Publisher Information:
London: Elsevier, 2007.
Publication Year:
2007
Physical Description:
print, 1 p.1/4
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Computer science, Informatique, Psychology, psychopathology, psychiatry, Psychologie, psychopathologie, psychiatrie, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Sciences appliquees, Applied sciences, Informatique; automatique theorique; systemes, Computer science; control theory; systems, Logiciel, Software, Systèmes informatiques et systèmes répartis. Interface utilisateur, Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface, Organisation des mémoires. Traitement des données, Memory organisation. Data processing, Gestion des mémoires et des fichiers (y compris la protection et la sécurité des fichiers), Memory and file management (including protection and security), Analyse circuit, Network analysis, Análisis circuito, Analyse citation, Citation analysis, Análisis citas, Analyse contenu, Content analysis, Análisis contenido, Analyse mécanisme, Mechanism analysis, Análisis mecánismo, Analyse sociologique, Social analysis, Análisis sociológico, Base donnée, Database, Base dato, Bibliométrie, Bibliometrics, Bibliometría, Interface utilisateur, User interface, Interfase usuario, Internet, Littérature, Literature, Literatura, Modélisation, Modeling, Modelización, Réseau social, Social network, Red social, Réseau web, World wide web, Red WWW, Système réparti, Distributed system, Sistema repartido, Sécurité informatique, Computer security, Seguridad informatica, Terrorisme, Terrorism, Terrorismo, Théorie type, Type theory, Visualisation, Visualization, Visualización, Co-citation analysis, Intellectual structure
Document Type:
Conference Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIS Department, The University of Arizona, 1130 E. Helen Street, Tucson, AZ 85721-0108, United States
ISSN:
1071-5819
Access URL:
http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=search&terms=18357100
Rights:
Copyright 2007 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Computer science; theoretical automation; systems
Accession Number:
edscal.18357100
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

A systematic view of terrorism research to reveal the intellectual structure of the field and empirically discern the distinct set of core researchers, institutional affiliations, publications, and conceptual areas can help us gain a deeper understanding of approaches to terrorism. This paper responds to this need by using an integrated knowledge-mapping framework that we developed to identify the core researchers and knowledge creation approaches in terrorism. The framework uses three types of analysis: (a) basic analysis of scientific output using citation, bibliometric, and social network analyses, (b) content map analysis of large corpora of literature, and (c) co-citation analysis to analyse linkages among pairs of researchers. We applied domain visualization techniques such as content map analysis, block-modeling, and co-citation analysis to the literature and author citation data from the years 1965 to 2003. The data were gathered from ten databases such as the ISI Web of Science. The results reveal: (I) the names of the top 42 core terrorism researchers (e.g., Brian Jenkins, Bruce Hoffman, and Paul Wilkinson) as well as their institutional affiliations; (2) their influential publications; (3) clusters of terrorism researchers who work in similar areas; and (4) that the research focus has shifted from terrorism as a low-intensity conflict to a strategic threat to world powers with increased focus on Osama Bin Laden.