Keywords associated with each research method
| Method . | Indicative keywords/phrases . |
|---|---|
| From Chu (2015) | |
| bibliometrics | impact factor, scientometric, bibliometric, citation analysis/impact/importance/counts/index/report/window/rate/pattern/distributions/score/network, citation-based index, h-index, hindex, citers, citees, bibliometric indicator, leydesdorff, altmetrics |
| content analysis | content analysis, inter coder reliability, inter annotator agreement, krippendorff |
| delphi study | delphi study |
| ethnography/field study | Hammersley, participant observation, ethnography, ethnographic, ethnographer, field note, rich description |
| experiment | dependent variable, independent variable, experiment, experimental |
| focus group | focus group |
| historical method | historical method |
| interview | interview, interviewed, interviewer, interviewee, interviewing, transcript |
| observation | observation |
| questionnaire | respondent, questionnaire, survey, Likert, surveyed, sampling, response rate |
| research diary/journal | diary study, cultural probe |
| think aloud protocol | think aloud |
| transaction log analysis | log analysis/technique |
| webometrics | webometrics, cybermetrics, link analysis |
| New | |
| agent based modeling/simulation | agent model/modeling, multi-agents |
| annotation | annotation, tagging |
| classification | classification, classify, classifier |
| clustering | cluster, clustering |
| comparative evaluation | comparative evaluation, evaluative studies |
| document analysis | document/textual analysis, document review |
| information extraction | named entity recognition, NER, relation extraction |
| IR related indexing/ranking/query methods | Learning to rank, term weighting, indexing method, query expansion, question answering |
| mixed method | cresswell and plano clark, mixed method |
| digital ethnography | digital ethnography, netnography, netnographic |
| network analysis | network analysis/study |
| statistical methods | correlation, logistic test, t-test, chi-square, hypothesis test, null hypothesis, dependence test |
| topic modeling | topic model, topic modeling, LDA |
| user task based study | user study, user analysis |
| Method . | Indicative keywords/phrases . |
|---|---|
| From Chu (2015) | |
| bibliometrics | impact factor, scientometric, bibliometric, citation analysis/impact/importance/counts/index/report/window/rate/pattern/distributions/score/network, citation-based index, h-index, hindex, citers, citees, bibliometric indicator, leydesdorff, altmetrics |
| content analysis | content analysis, inter coder reliability, inter annotator agreement, krippendorff |
| delphi study | delphi study |
| ethnography/field study | Hammersley, participant observation, ethnography, ethnographic, ethnographer, field note, rich description |
| experiment | dependent variable, independent variable, experiment, experimental |
| focus group | focus group |
| historical method | historical method |
| interview | interview, interviewed, interviewer, interviewee, interviewing, transcript |
| observation | observation |
| questionnaire | respondent, questionnaire, survey, Likert, surveyed, sampling, response rate |
| research diary/journal | diary study, cultural probe |
| think aloud protocol | think aloud |
| transaction log analysis | log analysis/technique |
| webometrics | webometrics, cybermetrics, link analysis |
| New | |
| agent based modeling/simulation | agent model/modeling, multi-agents |
| annotation | annotation, tagging |
| classification | classification, classify, classifier |
| clustering | cluster, clustering |
| comparative evaluation | comparative evaluation, evaluative studies |
| document analysis | document/textual analysis, document review |
| information extraction | named entity recognition, NER, relation extraction |
| IR related indexing/ranking/query methods | Learning to rank, term weighting, indexing method, query expansion, question answering |
| mixed method | cresswell and plano clark, mixed method |
| digital ethnography | digital ethnography, netnography, netnographic |
| network analysis | network analysis/study |
| statistical methods | correlation, logistic test, t-test, chi-square, hypothesis test, null hypothesis, dependence test |
| topic modeling | topic model, topic modeling, LDA |
| user task based study | user study, user analysis |