Plotting the Words of Econophysics

Text mining is applied to 510 articles on econophysics to reconstruct the lexical evolution of the discipline from 1999 to 2020. The analysis of the relative frequency of the words used in the articles and their “visualization” allow us to draw some conclusions about the evolution of the discipline....

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Main Author: Gianfranco Tusset
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/8/944
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description Text mining is applied to 510 articles on econophysics to reconstruct the lexical evolution of the discipline from 1999 to 2020. The analysis of the relative frequency of the words used in the articles and their “visualization” allow us to draw some conclusions about the evolution of the discipline. The traditional areas of research, financial markets and distribution of wealth, remain central, but they are flanked by other strands of research—production, currencies, networks—which broaden the discipline by pushing towards a dialectical application of traditional concepts and tools drawn from statistical physics.
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spelling doaj.art-83df70a54cac40f2860b8e52583ce3482023-11-22T07:34:02ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002021-07-0123894410.3390/e23080944Plotting the Words of EconophysicsGianfranco Tusset0Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua, via del Santo 33, 35123 Padua, ItalyText mining is applied to 510 articles on econophysics to reconstruct the lexical evolution of the discipline from 1999 to 2020. The analysis of the relative frequency of the words used in the articles and their “visualization” allow us to draw some conclusions about the evolution of the discipline. The traditional areas of research, financial markets and distribution of wealth, remain central, but they are flanked by other strands of research—production, currencies, networks—which broaden the discipline by pushing towards a dialectical application of traditional concepts and tools drawn from statistical physics.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/8/944lexical evolution of econophysicstext as datacorrespondence analysis
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correspondence analysis
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title_full_unstemmed Plotting the Words of Econophysics
title_short Plotting the Words of Econophysics
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correspondence analysis
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