A textual analysis and scientometric mapping of the dynamic of knowledge in and around the IFSA community

Marc Barbier (1) , Veronique Batifol (2) , Marianne Farges (2)

1 SADAPT - Sciences pour l'Action et le Développement : Activités, Produits, Territoires
2 UPIC - Unité Publications, Information, Communication

This communication proposes to depict the dynamic of the conceptual area of IFSA, and to bring a support to a discussion about the future of the IFSA community. It presents the results of a textual and scientometric analysis of the descriptors and concepts of the IFSA community. A general view of the knowledge of the community is delivered on the basis of the data mining of the corpus built up with the communications of the 6 previous IFSA Symposia. The empirical study details the key concepts and domains of investigation and their dynamics throughout the previous Symposia. This work has been realized in relation with a group of experts of the IFSA scientific domain. In order to contextualize the scientific positioning of the IFSA community, this study also delivers a set of scientometric mappings in order to analyze the corpus that have been extracted from international databases (CAB Abstract, Web of Science) based on the identification of the main IFSA conceptual keywords with IFSA experts. In conclusion the dynamic of the concepts and the positioning of the IFSA community is discussed

Mots clés: farming system; knowledge dynamic; information retrieval; data mining; textual analysis; co-word analysis; dynamique des connaissances; recherche d'information; exploration des donnees; analyse des mots associes

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Marc Barbier, Veronique Batifol, Marianne Farges. A textual analysis and scientometric mapping of the dynamic of knowledge in and around the IFSA community. 8. European IFSA Symposium, Jul 2008, Clermont Ferrand, France. 20 p. ⟨hal-01197759⟩