대한환경공학회지 (Feb 2021)
Analysis of Research Trends Based on Text Mining in the Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineering
Abstract
Objectives : The purpose of this study is to analyze research trends based on text mining technology from the published papers in the Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineering. Methods : From 2000 to 2019, a total of 2,743 published papers were analyzed using text mining techniques. Term frequency, TF-IDF for document classification, word association analysis were applied to find the characteristics of text data. Results and Discussion : When confirming the high appearance of the word in the published paper during 2000-2019, ‘adsorption’, ‘heavy metals’, ‘activated carbon’, ‘sediment’, ‘sewage sludge’ was found in order. It implies that large number of studies in the journal were focused on the water quality field mainly. TF-IDF analysis classified the studies into five groups; 1) drinking water treatment field, 2) water quality modeling field, 3) heavy metal adsorption field, 4) biological sewage treatment field, 5) environmental catalyst field. These results by TF-IDF show that a large proportion of studies were published in the field of water quality modeling and biological sewage treatment. When we analyzed the term frequency every five years, “adsorption” and “heavy metals” were the highly-frequency occurrence words from 2000 to 2009, but in the last 5 years, new words such as “fine dust”, “cesium”, and “ecological toxicity” were appeared. It seems that the research was reflected in the recent environmental issues. Conclusions : A lot of studies has been focused on the field of water quality but in recent years, new research topics are being studied related to atmosphere, toxicity, and radiation. Applying a more sophisticated and diverse text mining technique will be of great help to improve the environmental engineering research field.
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