id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_b5xa6yvzjvfo7crqzazx6f62pi Angelo A. Salatino How are topics born? Understanding the research dynamics preceding the emergence of new areas 2017 28 .pdf application/pdf 11579 1318 64 Keywords Scholarly data, Topic emergence detection, Empirical study, Research trend detection, Early awareness of the emergence of new research topics can bring significant benefits to & Gibbons (2013) suggested that the development of new topics is encouraged by the crossfertilisation of established research areas and recognised that multidisciplinary approaches novel research topic can be anticipated by a significant increase in the pace of collaboration not always easy to associate clearly identifiable research areas to the resulting topic models. study it is important to be able to associate topics with well-established research areas. Figure 11 Average collaboration pace per year of the sub-graphs related to input topics in both debutant and control groups considering their 20 (A), 40 (B) and 60 (C) most co-occurring topics. Table 4 Collaboration pace of the sub-graphs associated to selected debutant topics versus the average Table 6 The results of the triad census performed on the network associated with the debutant topic ''semantic web technology'' removing ./cache/work_b5xa6yvzjvfo7crqzazx6f62pi.pdf ./txt/work_b5xa6yvzjvfo7crqzazx6f62pi.txt