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1 Table of Contents
1 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 2
2 What is Defence Innovation Monitoring (DIM) .............................................................................. 4
3 DIM's Database ............................................................................................................................... 6
3.1 Scientific publications ............................................................................................................. 7
3.2 Patents .................................................................................................................................... 8
3.3 Granted EU projects ................................................................................................................ 8
4 Description of DIM Main page and menus ..................................................................................... 9
4.1 Main Panel .............................................................................................................................. 9
4.1.1 Network graphs............................................................................................................... 9
4.1.2 Colour of the nodes....................................................................................................... 10
4.1.3 Labels ............................................................................................................................ 10
4.1.4 Moving and exploring the network visualisation.......................................................... 11
4.2 Tools panel ............................................................................................................................ 11
4.2.1 Search............................................................................................................................ 11
4.2.2 Info on/off ..................................................................................................................... 11
4.2.3 Vis .................................................................................................................................. 12
4.2.4 Order: Normal / Order by size / Order by year ............................................................. 12
4.2.5 Colours: Modularity ...................................................................................................... 12
4.2.6 Hover On/Off................................................................................................................. 12
4.2.7 Hide On/Off ................................................................................................................... 13
4.2.8 Edges On/Off ................................................................................................................. 13
4.2.9 Labels None/ Main / All ................................................................................................ 13
4.3 Filter panel ............................................................................................................................ 13
4.3.1 Year filter....................................................................................................................... 14
4.4 Year selector ......................................................................................................................... 14
4.5 Navigation Panel ................................................................................................................... 14
4.6 Page Selector......................................................................................................................... 14
4.7 Options .................................................................................................................................. 16
4.7.1 Refresh .......................................................................................................................... 16
4.7.2 Page info ....................................................................................................................... 17
5 DIM Pages ..................................................................................................................................... 18
5.1 Landing Page – Analysis on all datasets ................................................................................ 18

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5.1.1 Datasetgram .................................................................................................................. 18

5.1.2 News Trends.................................................................................................................. 19
5.2 Dataset Info ........................................................................................................................... 19
5.3 Organisation Page ................................................................................................................. 20
5.4 Location Page ........................................................................................................................ 22
5.4.1 Countries ....................................................................................................................... 22
5.4.2 EU/World ...................................................................................................................... 23
5.4.3 EU countries .................................................................................................................. 23
5.4.4 Regions .......................................................................................................................... 23
5.4.5 Cities .............................................................................................................................. 24
5.4.6 Map ............................................................................................................................... 24
5.5 Topic Page ............................................................................................................................. 24
5.5.1 Journal Categories......................................................................................................... 24
5.5.2 Patent Classification ...................................................................................................... 26
5.5.3 Keywords....................................................................................................................... 26
5.6 News Page ............................................................................................................................. 28
5.6.1 News.............................................................................................................................. 28
5.6.2 News Trends.................................................................................................................. 28
5.7 Miscellaneous Page............................................................................................................... 29
5.7.1 Year ............................................................................................................................... 29
5.7.2 Type of document ......................................................................................................... 29
5.7.3 Data Source ................................................................................................................... 30
5.7.4 Document list ................................................................................................................ 30

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2 What is Defence Innovation Monitoring

(DIM)
DIM is a Technology Watch tool aimed to monitor and support a better understanding of the
different facets of scientific and technological developments that may impact defence
capabilities. It is based on Tools for Innovation Monitoring (TIM) – an analytical tool
developed by European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. DIM maps the scientific and
technical landscape of Defence technologies. To access it go to
https://edatechwatch.z6.web.core.windows.net/
The system is organized by thematic and topics searches. For each search a list of
technologies, that are considered relevant by subject matter experts, is encoded in the tool
and visualized according to the different functionalities available in technological monitoring
and foresight. The list of technologies in DIM is by no means exhaustive and is continuously
updated.
The current structure of DIM is as follows:

Defence Innovation Monitoring

DIM Defence Defence Technologies CapTech

• Underpinning and enabling • Air

technologies
• Ammunition
• CBRN & Human Factors
• Systems-related technologies • Components
• Informations
• Land
• Systems and supporting • Maritime
technologies
• Materials
• Navigation
• Optronics
• Radar
• Simulation

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To explore the scientific and technical landscapes, choose one field within EDA Reseach and
Technology Taxonomy or on of CapTech Research areas

For example in Captech Navigation page, choose GNC TBB01 Navigation in GNSS denied
Environment.

The user will be taken to the DIM page populated with technologies relevant for this specific
TBB. In this case, technologies related to Navigation in GNSS denied Environment.

The landscapes for each technology in each technology field are built using information from
documents contained in DIM's database. Additionally, news from major media sites are
gathered for each subfield. See section "News" in the present guide.

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3 DIM's Database
DIM's database contains documents that are the underlying data for the visualisations in DIM.

DIM's database contains mainly three types of documents: scientific publications (articles,
conference proceedings, reviews and book chapters), patents and EU granted projects.

More than 60 million documents are currently indexed in DIM Technology's database.

The coverage per year is not homogeneous for each type of data. The coverage in DIM
depends on what is available at the time of indexing the data from the providers.

For example, this is the distribution of documents resulting from the last indexing of the data
in August 2018.

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3.1 Scientific publications

The scientific publications in DIM are subdivided in research articles, conference proceedings,
reviews and book chapters. The database contains documents from the database Scopus
(Elsevier) published after 1996. The source types covered in Scopus are either serial
publications that have an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) such as journals, book
series and some conference series or non-serial publications that have an ISBN (International
Standard Book Number) like one-off book publications or one-off conferences. To ensure that
coverage, discoverability, profiles and impact measurement for research in all subject fields
is accounted for, Scopus covers different source types. The database contains the journals
published by Elsevier but also by other publishers (90%).

a) Articles (Research articles)

Articles include Original research or opinion and Article-in-Press. Original research or opinion
consist of articles in peer-reviewed journals and are usually several pages in length, most
often subdivided into sections: abstract, introduction, methodology & methods, results,
conclusions, discussion and references. However, case reports, technical and research notes
and short communications are also considered to be articles and may be as short as one page
in length. Articles in trade journals are typically shorter than in peer-reviewed journals and
may also be as brief as one page in length. Article-in-Press (AiP) are accepted articles that are
made available online before official publication.

b) Conference proceedings

Article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium. Conference papers may range
in length and content from full papers and published conference summaries to short items
like conference abstract which can be as short as few lines.

c) Reviews

This category includes both reviews and short surveys. Reviews are usually state-of-play of a
given branch or field of science & technology and typically have an extensive bibliography.
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Educational items that review specific issues within the literature are also considered to be
reviews. As non-original articles, reviews lack the most typical sections of original articles such
as materials & methods and results.
Short surveys, also called Short or mini-review are similar to reviews, but usually are shorter
(not more than a few pages) and with a less extensive bibliography.

d) Book chapters

Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter
by a heading or section indicator.
The list of sources (journals) from where these types of publications are coming from can be
consulted here.

For more information you can also consult the Scopus Coverage Guide.

3.2 Patents
The patent documents are extracted from the database PATSTAT from the European Patent
Office (EPO). It contains patents from more than 90 patent authorities including all the major
countries. We consider all patent documents in Patstat with priority date from 1996 onwards.
The patent documents are then grouped per patent family when at least one of the members
of the family is in English. The underlying assumption is that one patent family equals one
invention. The EPO database is released two times a year.

3.3 Granted EU projects

a) Granted projects from EU framework programme for research and technological
development

This dataset contains projects funded by the European Union under the fifth framework
programme for research and technological development (FP5) from 1998 to 2002, FP6 from
2002 to 2006, FP7 from 2007 to 2013 and the Horizon 2020 framework programme for
research and innovation (H2020) from 2014 to date. Grant information is provided for each
project, including reference, title, starting date, programmes, participant countries, subjects
and objectives. This data is extracted from the Cordis dataset, accessible on the European
Union Open Data Portal.

b) Granted projects from the EUREKA network

EUREKA is an intergovernmental network that supports market-oriented R&D and innovation

projects by industry, research centres and universities across all technological sectors.
Projects under the programme Clusters, Eurostars and Network Projects from 2004 are in the
database.

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4 Description of DIM
Main page and menus

1. Main Panel
2. Tools panel
3. Filter panel
4. Year selector
5. Navigation Panel
6. Page Selector
7. Options

4.1 Main Panel

The main panel of DIM is used to show an area of the currently active graph. The way in which
the active graph is shown depends on the options that have been selected on the tools panel.

4.1.1 Network graphs

DIM massively uses network visualisations to display data. These network visualisations
contain nodes and edges. This principle applies to most of the graphs in DIM.
The attribute of nodes will change according to the visualisation that is selected. For example,
when visualising the data item "cities", each node will be a city.

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The size of the nodes corresponds to the respective weight (the number of documents) of the
data items in the dataset.
The edges correspond to documents in common between two nodes. The thickness of the
edge varies with the number of documents actually in common.

In the main panel, when no specific dataset is selected, the graph represents all the datasets
listed in the navigation panel. The visualisation principle of DIM applies here: the size of the
node represents the number of documents retrieved for that dataset while the edges
represent documents in common between two datasets.

4.1.2 Colour of the nodes

Nodes are assigned to communities and the colour of the nodes and edges represents the
community to which the nodes belong: nodes of the same colour belong to the same
community. The quality and relevance of the communities (which is actually a type of
clustering), is measured by their modularity. You can consult the scientific article on the
algorithm used in DIM or also look at the Wikipedia page relating to this so called Louvain
Modularity algorithm. This algorithm is a commonly accepted clustering method of nodes in
network graphs and only relies on characteristics of the network, without taking into account
any semantic measures of similarity. It can be applied to any network and it does not have to
be applied necessarily to documents. This feature comes from the library used to display the
network graphs, which is based on Gephi, a well-respected visualisation software.

4.1.3 Labels

The labels indicate what the item refers to. By default, not all the labels are visible to optimise
the visualisation of the data. Some options are available to modify the display of labels.

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4.1.4 Moving and exploring the network visualisation

To facilitate the exploration of the network graphs, the mouse can be used to:
- zoom in by using the mouse wheel. When positioned anywhere on the main panel, turn the
wheel up to zoom in and down to zoom out.
- move the graph by moving the mouse while keeping the left mouse button pressed.
- see the label of a node by hovering the nodes with the mouse.
- move a node by left-clicking on the node and move the mouse while keeping the button
pressed. This functionality is particularly useful to allow for clear reading or for differentiation
of nodes.
- filter by double-clicking on a node to add it to the active filter. Double click again to remove
from the filter.
- filter for all the nodes of same community (represented with one same colour) by activating
first the hover button (in tool panel) and then double-clicking on any of the nodes of the
community. All the nodes of the community will be added to the filter.
Note that several filters can be applied at the same time by double-clicking on all the items
you wish to include in the filter, even from different network graphs. For more information
on filters see also the section on filter panel.
- see the node/edge size by right-clicking on a node/edge. Also, some filtering options appear
when right-clicking.
Some other types of visualisation are displayed on the main panel depending on what is
chosen in the page selector. Among others there are analytical visualisations, text display and
geographical maps visualisations. Each of these will be discussed with its correspondent item
in the graph selector.

4.2 Tools panel

The tools panel allows the user to modify the appearance of the network graph displayed in
the main panel.

4.2.1 Search

Search allows searching for a node in the graph. After three or more characters are typed, it
suggests the labels of the nodes that coincide with the search. Click on the relevant label and
the visualisation will automatically zoom in to the relevant node. If no items are listed after
typing at least three characters, the search wasn't able to retrieve any results.

4.2.2 Info on/off

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When the info is ON a panel appears on the left side of the main panel with the list in
alphabetical order of all the nodes of the currently displayed graph. The list is clickable and
the view will zoom to the selected node.

4.2.3 Vis

This button adjusts the visual complexity of the graph by hiding nodes or edges according to
their specific size. Both edge and node size selectors will show in brackets the minimum and
maximum sizes of edges or nodes that are currently displayed. These values can be modified
by dragging the selector bars. It is possible to adjust both the minimum and the maximum
size of edges and nodes. The same can be done to adjust the size of the edges displayed.

Example of Node size selection: Visualisation of the same graph with all the nodes (left) or with the nodes that represent
more than 13 data items (right).

4.2.4 Order: Normal / Order by size / Order by year

This drop-down menu allows to choose between a default (normal) visualisation of the graph
or to order the nodes by size or by year.
When ordered by size the top left node is the biggest node and the down right one is the
smallest.
When ordered by year, the node that appeared most recently is at the left top part and the
one that appeared first on the down right.
The meaning of colours and edges remains unchanged.

4.2.5 Colours: Modularity

This drop-down menu allows choosing the meaning of the colouring of the nodes.
Modularity is the option by default and displays the communities of nodes.

4.2.6 Hover On/Off

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When hover is on, mouseover on a node makes visible only that node and the other nodes
and edges of the same community (all nodes of the same colour).

4.2.7 Hide On/Off

Position by default is off. When a filter is active and hide is off, the non-selected items
(outfiltered) appear shaded in a very light colour.
When Hide is on, the non-selected items are hidden and therefore do not appear in the
visualisation.

4.2.8 Edges On/Off

The position by default is on and the edges are visible. When turned off, the edges disappear
from the graph.

4.2.9 Labels None/ Main / All

The position by default is main. Only some of the labels of the biggest nodes are visible.
By clicking on the switch, all the labels appear or none of the labels is visible.

4.3 Filter panel

The filter panel appears at the right top corner of the
main panel only when it is active.

To activate a filter, simply double click on the node you want to filter for.
A filter allows you to work with only a subset of the dataset. Once applied, the filter will hide
all the data items that do not meet the criteria of the filter. The filters can be defined with
one or multiple criteria. The lower part of the panel indicates the items that are part of the
filter.
The example above shows an active filter for documents from [United States + University of
Minnesota + Electrical and Electronic engineering].
The filter panel allows the user to manage the (multiple) filter(s) that are applied to the
visualisation of the dataset. Every criteria of a filter can be de-activated by pressing the red x
button. To clear all filters, press "Clear filter" on the top right of the panel.
The filters work cross-graphs, meaning that a filter that is activated in one of the graphs stays
active when changing graph. For example, if we filter for a subject, such as Software and then
we move to a graph that shows geographic information, we will see only the location(s) of the
documents related to the subject Software.
The panel can be moved (drag by left-click and keep left button pressed).
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4.3.1 Year filter

The year filter is used in conjunction with the year selector. Its use is discussed in the
paragraph about the year selector.

4.4 Year selector

The year selector allows you to see the relevant data only for a specific time frame. Move the
year selector from the right and/or from the left to delimit a specific time window. The graph
is recomputed showing only the data items that belong to the time period.
When the command "Year Filter" is on and the year selector is also activated, the graph will
be filtered for the new items in that time period.

4.5 Navigation Panel

The navigation panel is used to navigate between
the different datasets that have been created. In
DIM, for each of the subfields previously
described, there is a list of datasets or
technologies that can be browsed and explored.

1. User/ space information

2. List of datasets (in alphabetical order)

3. Full screen command

4.6 Page Selector

The page selector allows the user to apply the different visualisations to the datasets. The
graphs are ordered by categories. The categories are the following:

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- Organisation: Network graph visualizations relating to the organisations/entities that are

publishing, patenting and or are beneficiaries of EU projects.

- Location: Network graph visualisations relating to the location of the entities detected in the
documents. Different levels of granularity are available, from countries to regions and cities.
There is also a geographic projection on a map.

- Topic: Visualisations that relate to the topic of the documents in the dataset.

- News: Direct access to the latest news on the specific technology subfield and news trends.

- Quantitative analysis: Trends and indicators calculated on the dataset. Filters apply to the
data.

These are the pages (graphs) that are available in DIM:

Page SubPage Visualisation Description

Landing Page Datasetgram Graph Graph of all datasets
News Trends Charts News trends for all datasets
Organisation Dataset Info Text Information about the dataset (name,
search string, creation and modification
date and more)
Organisations Graph Normalised name of the organisation
that is affiliation of an author, applicant
of a patent or beneficiary of an EU
project
Location Dataset Info Text See above
Cities Graph City of the normalised organisation
Countries Graph Country of the normalised organisation
EU/World Graph Country of the normalised organisation
or belonging to the EU.
EU Countries Graph Country of the normalised organisation
that belong to the EU.
NUTS2 Graph Territorial unit for statistics level 2 of
the normalised organisation
NUTS3 Graph Territorial unit for statistics level 3 of
the normalised organisation
Map Map Location of the normalised
organisations
Topic Dataset Info Text See above
Journal Graph Scientific articles are published in
categories journals that are assigned to different
categories.
Patent class Graph Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
attributed to patents indicating the
subject to which the invention relates.

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Author Graph Author keywords are the keywords

Keywords attributed by the authors to their
publications (not available for other
types of documents)
Automatic Graph Automatic keywords are keywords
keywords calculated or all types of documents
Relevant Text Most relevant keywords in the dataset
Keywords
Dataset Info Text See above
Quantitative Technology Chart Trends in the number of documents
Analysis Trends and other indicators
Histogram Chart Trends in the number of each type of
document
Dataset Info Text See above
News News Text Latest news for the EMM category
assigned to the dataset
News Trends Chart Trends in the number of news
Dataset Info Text See above
Miscellaneous Years Graph Publication year of the publication,
priority year of the patent or starting
year of the EU project
Type of Graph article: Research article
documents
conf: Conference proceedings
boch: Book chapters
review :Review
patent: Patent

euproject: EU project
Data source Graph Original database from where the
documents come from (Scopus or
Patstat).
Documents list Text List of documents in (filtered) dataset

More information on each type of page will be provided in the following sections.

4.7 Options
The options available can vary depending of the type of user.

4.7.1 Refresh

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To recalculate the graph or chart in case of problems.

4.7.2 Page info

Page info contains technical information the displayed page.

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5 DIM Pages
5.1 Landing Page – Analysis on all datasets

When no dataset is selected, the landing page is displayed. The default page presents data
that is relative to all the datasets.
To go back to the default page once a dataset has been selected, simply click on the DIM logo
to deselect any active dataset.

5.1.1 Datasetgram

The datasetgram is a network graph with all the datasets that have been created.

In this visualisation, each node is a technology (or dataset). The size of the nodes corresponds
to the number of documents retrieved for each dataset. The edges between the nodes are
documents in common in between the two datasets. The thicker the edge, more documents
are in common. The colours show the communities of nodes, i.e. datasets that tend to have
more data in common among each other that we the nodes of a different colour .

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5.1.2 News Trends

News trends shows the numerical trends in number of news articles. The plot represents the
dates in the X axis and the number of news articles in the Y. Not all the datasets/spaces in
DIM have associated news. This will be progressively populated.

For all the other pages to be displayed, choose first a dataset from the Navigation Panel on
the left.

5.2 Dataset Info

Dataset info is visible for any of the pages selected. It gives information to the user on the
dataset selected.
Among others, the information that can be found in dataset info relates to the name of the
dataset, the search query that was used to define the technology, the date of creation of the
dataset. DIM also gives information on the types of documents that were retrieved from the
database. The number of articles, conference proceedings (conf), reviews, book chapters
(boch), patent and EU projects retrieved for each specific dataset is displayed in dataset info.

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5.3 Organisation Page

Organisations are the institutions or companies that are affiliations of the authors of scientific
publications, applicants of patents or beneficiaries of EU Framework programme grants.

The graphs in this category are also called sociograms, i.e. graphs that represent the "social
network" of the organisations. In a sociogram each node represents an organisation. The links
between organisations represent a collaboration between two organisations. They
correspond to documents where the two organisations appear. Therefore the links represent
co-publishing, co-patenting or co-granting of EU projects.

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The thicker the node, the more intense the collaboration (in terms of common number of
documents) is.
For groups of organisations of the same colour, the graph suggests that those tend to
collaborate more among themselves than with the others. (Read more about communities of
nodes in the specific section).
This type of graphs allows studying the collaboration patterns between organisations that are
active in publishing, patenting or beneficiaries of EU projects.

Because the names of the organisations come from different sources, a process of cleaning
and harmonization is necessary. The tool used for processing and cleaning of organisation
names is in continuous development and is not a 100% accurate: not all organisations are
recognised and some errors may be done when attributing a unique identifier to variants of
an organisation.

In DIM, the process of harmonising names of organisations is called Entity Matching. The
Entity Matcher groups all the organisations and their different spellings with a predefined list
of organisations. One of the main limitations of this approach is that if an organisation is not
recognised then the node is not shown in the graph.

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5.4 Location Page

The location tab in DIM gives access to all the graphs relating to the location of the
organisations.

The location is subdivided in different levels, from cities to countries.

The correct attribution of the location of an organisation depends in the first place in a correct
identification of the organisation and therefore depends on the process of cleaning and
harmonization of the organisations.

In this type of graphs, each node represents a location (city, region, country...). The links
between locations represent collaboration between two organisations in the different
locations. They correspond to documents where the two locations appear. Therefore, the
links represent co-publishing, co-patenting or co-granting of EU projects between different
geographical locations. The thicker the node, the more intense the collaboration (in terms of
common number of documents) is. For groups of locations of the same colour, the graph
suggests that those tend to collaborate more among themselves than with the others (read
more about communities of nodes here)

5.4.1 Countries

The countrygrams show the countries where organisations are located.

This visualisation is based on the country of the organisations that have been processed by
the Entity Matcher.
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5.4.2
EU/World

The worldgrams are countrygrams where all the EU countries are gathered in one node.

This visualisation is based on the country of the organisations that have been processed by
the Entity Matcher.

5.4.3 EU countries

The Europegram is a normal countrygram that shows only EU countries. The rest of the
countries are not shown. This visualisation is based on the country of the organisations that
have been processed by the Entity Matcher.

5.4.4 Regions

The NUTSgrams represent the regions of Europe of the organisations that are publishing,
patenting or receiving EU projects. The NUTS classification (Nomenclature of territorial units
for statistics) is a hierarchical system for dividing up the economic territory of the EU.

NUTS3 is a more granular level of regions than NUTS2.

5.4.4.1 Nuts2

In a NUTS2grams nodes are NUTS2 level regions. This visualisation is based on the NUTS2
region of the organisations that have been processed by the Entity Matcher.

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5.4.4.2 Nuts3

In a NUTS3grams nodes are NUTS3 level regions. This visualisation is based on the NUTS3
region of the organisations that have been processed by the Entity Matcher.

5.4.5 Cities

Citygrams show the cities where organisations are located. This visualisation is based on the
city of the organisations that have been processed by the Entity Matcher.

5.4.6 Map

This visualisation is the projection on a geographical map of the city of the organisations that
have been processed by the Entity Matcher. When zoomed out, the colours of the bubbles
indicate the intensity of the number of documents per regions. When hovering on the bubble,
the region taken into account for the calculation is shown. The map can be zoomed in and
out. No filtering or further analysis is however possible.

5.5 Topic Page

The topic tab in DIM gives access to all the graphs relating to the topics or themes of the
underlying documents.

The "topics" refer to attributes in relation to the content of the documents. Each graph gives
the user a different perspective on the topics of the documents that are analysed.

5.5.1 Journal Categories

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This network graph is built with the Journal Category attributed to each articles contained in
the subdataset. The journal category is a classification of field of science that is attributed by
Elsevier to each scientific journal that is part of the database. See the subjects here.

The graph will only take into account the documents that have a subject category in Scopus
(articles, reviews, conference proceedings and some book chapters).

In a journal category gram each node represents a subject category (for example: Computer
Science or Engineering).
The link between two subject categories represents the fact that at least one document is
being attributed to those two subjects.
The thicker the node, the higher the number of documents that have those two subjects is.
For groups of categories of the same colour, the graph suggests that those tend to appear
more often together in the same publications than with others.
The journal category gram will only represent the documents that have been classified in a
certain Subject Category by Scopus. All other types of documents are not taken into account
for this visualisation.

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5.5.2 Patent Classification

The patent classification graph is a visualisation of the CPC class attributed to the documents.
Patent publications are each assigned at least one classification term indicating the subject to
which the invention relates. For the nomenclature of patent classes see the European Patent
Office page.
In a classificationgram each node represents a CPC class (for example: C12N 15/10 or F16K
47/18).
The link between two CPC classes represents that at least one patent has been classified in
those two classes.
The thicker the node, the higher the number of patents that belong to that couple of classes.
This visualisation is based on the CPC class of the patents. All other types of documents are
excluded from the visualisation.

5.5.3 Keywords

The keywordgrams are a visualisation of the keywords attributed to the documents. The
keywords can come directly from the documents or be calculated by DIM using some text
processing algorithms.

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In a keyword graph each node represents a keyword (for example: Cyber Security or
Transplantation).
The link between two keywords represents that at least one document has a least those two
keywords.
The thicker the node, the higher the number of documents that have those two keywords is.

5.5.3.1 Author Keywords

In this visualisation, the keywords that are shown are the author keywords attributed by the
authors to their publications (articles, reviews, conference proceedings and some book
chapters). Only documents that have keywords attributed by their authors are taken into
account. All other types of documents are excluded from this visualisation.

5.5.3.2 Automatic Keywords

In this visualisation, the keywords are computed by DIM for each type of document.
Autokeywords or Automatic keywords are computed by text mining techniques. This
visualisation includes all types of documents in the system, including those that do not have
author keywords.

5.5.3.3 Relevant Keywords

Relevant keywords is an ordered list of terms with an associated score. The score measures
the "relevance" of the keyword in the dataset.

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5.6 News Page

The News pages displays information related to general news about the field. The news have been
aggregated using Europe Media Monitor, news aggregation and analysis system developed by The
European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC)

5.6.1 News

This page gives direct access to the latest news related to the subfield of interest. Links are
provided to the original news article on the website of the publisher.

5.6.2 News Trends

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The plot shows the evolution in time of the news articles aggregated by the EMM System for
the specific category.

5.7 Miscellaneous Page

The Miscellaneous page contains graphs with a few additional fields that are present in the
data. Most of the visualisations are not very useful from an analysis point of view but are to
be used for filtering.

5.7.1 Year

This network graph represents the years of the documents. The date taken into account is the
year of publication for scientific publications, the year of the priority date for patents and the
year of beginning of the project for EU projects.

The size of the nodes represents the number of documents for each year. There are no edges
between the nodes because one document cannot have two distinct publication years.

5.7.2 Type of document

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This network graph represents the types of documents. As already presented previously those
represent article: Research article, conf: Conference proceedings, boch: Book chapters,
review: Review, patent: Patent, euproject: EU project.
The size of the nodes represents the number of documents for each type. There are no edges
between the nodes because one document cannot be of two different types.

5.7.3 Data Source

This network graph represents the sources of documents. As already discussed previously,
there are only three types of sources for document, Scopus for scientific publications, Patstat
for patents and Cordis for EU projects.

The size of the nodes represents the number of documents for each source. There are no
edges between the nodes because one document cannot be originated from two different
sources.

5.7.4 Document list

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The documents list retrieves some basic information about the documents in the dataset.

Access to the abstract or description is also provided. For scientific publications, a link to the
original location of the article is provided. If your institution has the proper subscription,
access to the full article might be possible. For patents, a link to the patent in Espacenet is
provided.

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