Identification and Characterisation of Technological Topics in the Field of Molecular Biology

10th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators,, Austria (2008) This paper focuses on methodological approaches for characterising the specific topics within a technological field based on scientific literature data. We introduce a diachronic clustering analysis approach and some bibliometric indicators. The results are visualised with the software-tool Stanalyst [1]. We are applying our methods to the field "Molecular Biology". This field has grown a great deal in the last decade.