Identification of Evolutionary Docu-ments baded of Sigma Indicator: Agent-based Modelling Field of Study in Social Sciences

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1 PhD candidate in Technology Man-agement, Allameh Tabatabaei University

2 Associate Profes-sor, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Al-lameh Tabatabaei University

3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Al-lameh Tabatabaei University

4 Professor, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabaei University

Abstract

Purpose:The aim of this article is to identify and discover scientific documents that potentially have transformative characteristics during the time and impress the structure of a scientific area. Transformativeness is a characteristic of scientific documents, according to which a scientific document, not only fills the communication gaps of different networks with a scientific structure, but also is the basis of development and expansion of a scientific area in scientific networks that are related to a scientific structure.
Methodology: The method used in this project is co-citation analysis, and in order to identify transformative documents the index of sigma has been used. According to this, the rate of burstness of each document during the time and betweenness centrality of each existing node in network, are measured and analyzed in order to estimate the index of sigma.
Findings: The result of the project shows that the co-citation network, made from 699 extracted articles of Web of Knowledge database, includes 2339 nodes. Based on the sigma index, 23 documents are identified as potentially transformative, and they include books and articles from 1970 up to 2017. Among these 23 documents, 8 documents are related to the basic theory of complexity and agent-based modeling, 4 documents are related to scientific area of social science, 6 documents are related to scientific area of management with different attitudes such as marketing and financial, 3 documents are related to economy, 1 document related to research methodology (in this article simulation approach to research has been investigated), and 1 document related to innovation studies.
Conclusion: Sigma indicators showed better compared to other indicators.

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