On the application of machine learning in astronomy and astrophysics: A text‐mining‐based scientometric analysis

Rodríguez, José‐Víctor, Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, Ignacio and Woo, Wai Lok (2022) On the application of machine learning in astronomy and astrophysics: A text‐mining‐based scientometric analysis. WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 12 (5). e1476. ISSN 1942-4787

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1476

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the fields of astronomy and astrophysics have experienced significant growth at observational and computational levels, leading to the acquisition of increasingly huge volumes of data. In order to process this vast quantity of information, artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are being combined with data mining to detect patterns with the aim of modeling, classifying or predicting the behavior of certain astronomical phenomena or objects. Parallel to the exponential development of the aforementioned techniques, the scientific output related to the application of AI and machine learning (ML) in astronomy and astrophysics has also experienced considerable growth in recent years. Therefore, the increasingly abundant articles make it difficult to monitor this field in terms of which research topics are the most prolific or novel, or which countries or authors are leading them. In this article, a text-mining-based scientometric analysis of scientific documents published over the last three decades on the application of AI and ML in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics is presented. The VOSviewer software and data from the Web of Science (WoS) are used to elucidate the evolution of publications in this research field, their distribution by country (including co-authorship), the most relevant topics addressed, and the most cited elements and most significant co-citations according to publication source and authorship. The obtained results demonstrate how application of AI/ML to the fields of astronomy/astrophysics represents an established and rapidly growing field of research that is crucial to obtaining scientific understanding of the universe.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: astronomy, astrophysics, machine learning, scientometrics, text mining
Subjects: F500 Astronomy
G400 Computer Science
G700 Artificial Intelligence
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 15 Aug 2022 12:11
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2022 13:45
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49851

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