| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a system and method with the capacity to compare and analyze keywords of a specific area of study. By the use of the methods of the present invention, some sets of keywords will be seen as "warming up" due to their upward trends, whereas other keywords might be seen as "cooling down" due to their downward trends. Given the accepted fact that growing areas of research are the ones that are more likely to produce scientific breakthroughs, the system identifies these emerging ("hot") areas of research would accelerate the scientific advances of their users. Similarly, users will be able to view and shift from non-productive ("cool") areas of research to productive "hot" areas. The invention involves the utilization of a commercially available database program and provides specific keywords associated with the investigated topic. The present invention also provides a method for indexing the keywords using a keyword tree structure database so the data is in the correct format for analysis. The invention also provides a method for analyzing the number of occurrences of keywords along with the analysis of an impact factor associated with the keywords. The formatted data then allows the construction of several charts so a user can easily assess the state and forefront of a specified topic.
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