The Scientometric, Social Network and Scientographic Analysis of an Industrial Engineering Department

Abstract

This dissertation examines the twenty-year publication output (from 1986 to 2005) of the National University of Singapore Industrial Engineering Department (NUS-ISE) based on three perspectives namely scientometrics, social network analysis, and multidimensional scaling. The scientometrics perspective allows the evaluation of the productivity and impact of the NUS-ISE faculties, as well as the collaboration trend in publishing, while the social network analysis and multidimensional scaling techniques allow a holistic understanding of the evolutions of the NUSISE co-authorship networks and the disciplinary roots of NUS-ISE.

Keywords: scientometric, social network analysis, multi dimensional scaling, industrial engineering