Identification and Characterisation of Technological Topics in the Field of Molecular Biology

This paper focuses on methodological approaches for characterising the specific topics within a technological field based on scientific literature data. We introduce a diachronic clustering analysis approach and some bibliometric indicators. The results are visualised with the software-tool Stanalyst [1]. We are applying our methods to the field “Molecular Biology”. This field has grown a great deal in the last decade.