A new territory and its pioneer: opening up a dominant research stream for a translational research area
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A new territory and its pioneer: opening up a dominant research stream for a translational research area Yuxian Liu1,2,3 · Ewelina Biskup4,5 · Yueqian Wang6 · Fengfeng Cai7 · Xiaoyan Zhang8 Received: 13 November 2019 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract An academic pioneer makes many trials to find relations and results that were unknown before. The verified relations and repeatable results the pioneer finds guide followers to create a new subject area. We investigated how a pioneer opened up a research stream for a translational research area by systemic mapping and clustering of all available publications on Her-2 and of this pioneer’s work. Characteristics of clusters in both maps were largely similar, but we also identified differences, indicating that the pioneer opened a dominant research stream for the whole area. We show how different clusters representing TR stages took shape. Strong links and the terms connected by these strong links made it possible to deduce the roles of these clusters in the translational process. The strong links between clusters build a broad and solid bridge between the clusters in the pioneer’s term map, realizing the translational process. We discuss and then conclude that verified relations and repeatable results strengthen links between terms that reflect main relations found by the pioneer. Further investigations of the relations between linkage strength and the translational process might lead to interesting information about the process of translational research. Keywords Research stream · Translational research · Term map · Clusters · Phases of translational research · Linkage strength
Introduction Translational Research (TR) aims to bring findings of fundamental research into medical and nursing practice, as well as to bring clinical needs to laboratory. Molas-Gallart et al. (2015) proposed a new framework for the evaluation of translational research (TR), suggesting to analyze how one TR stage is translated to another. The application of this framework faces severe challenges, such as how to mark different phases of the translational process and how to chart pathways along these phases. Small (2000) * Yuxian Liu [email protected] * Xiaoyan Zhang [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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captioned clusters gathered together by citation links in a specific research area, then charted pathways between these clusters so that the discovery process could be logically followed. His approach was retrograde from existing discoveries back to the core, identifying paths that connect early clusters. Cambrosio et al. (2006) mapped the emergence and development of translational cancer research. They found that concepts on the same research level such as basic research or clinical practice are more likely to cluster together via semantic network maps. These maps displayed links between concepts that co-occurred within the title and the abstract of a given article. These observat
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