As many existing research fields are matured academically, researchers have encountered numbers of academic, social and other problems that cannot be addressed by internal knowledge and methodologies of existing disciplines. Earlier, pioneers of researchers thus are following a new paradigm that breaks the boundaries between the prior disciplines, fuses them and seeks new approaches. Moreover, developed countries including Korea are actively supporting and fostering the convergence research at the national level. Nevertheless, there is insufficient research to analyze convergence trends in national R&D support projects and what kind of content the projects mainly deal with. This study, therefore, collected and preprocessed the research proposal data of National Research Foundation of Korea, transforming the proposal documents to term-frequency matrices. Based on the matrices, this study derived detailed research topics through Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a kind of topic modeling algorithm. Next, this study identified the research topics each proposal mainly deals with, visualized the convergence relationships, and quantitatively analyze them. Specifically, this study analyzed the centralities of the detailed research topics to derive clues about the convergence of the near future, in addition to visualizing the convergence relationship and analyzing time-varying number of research proposals per each topic. The results of this study can provide specific insights on the research direction to researchers and monitor domestic convergence R&D trends by year.

The objective of this study is to identify the research trend in the field of indoor environment in Korea. We collected 419 papers published in the Journal of the Korean Society for indoor environment between 2004 and 2018, and attempted to produce datasets using a topic modeling technique, Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA). The result of topic modeling showed that 8 topics (“VOCs investigation”, “Subway environment”, “Building thermal environment”, “School health”, “Building particulate matter”, “Asbestos risk”, “Radon risk”, “Air cleaner and treatment”) could be extracted using Gibbs sampling method. In terms of topic trends, investigation of volatile organic compounds, subway environment, school health, and building particulate matter showed a decreasing tendency, while the building thermal environment, asbestos risk, radon risk, air cleaners, and air treatment showed an increasing tendency. The results of this topic modeling could help us to understand current trends related indoor environment, and provide valuable information in developing future research and policy frameworks.

Recently, with the increase in demand for big data analysis, related techniques and tools are being developed, which makes it possible to utilize data that was difficult to analyze by traditional methods. Topic modeling is a useful technique for deriving topics from a vast amount of text, and is often used in research on trends and predictions of academic research or science and technology. However, the topic derived from the topic modeling is a combination of words presented on the basis of the frequency and probability of simultaneous occurrence, and cannot describe the importance or priority of each word. Therefore, in this study, we applied AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) technique to evaluate the priority of the result derived from topic modeling (Topic). In this study, bibliographic data (total of 15,888 articles) of academic researches related to consulting were collected and used in the analysis of this study in order to suggest prioritization method using Topic-Modeling and AHP.

‘Consulting’, which is the main research topic of the knowledge service industry, is a field of study that is essential for the growth and development of companies and proliferation to specialized fields. However, it is difficult to grasp the current status of international research related to consulting, mainly on which topics are being studied, and what are the latest research topics. The purpose of this study is to analyze the research trends of academic research related to ‘consulting’ by applying quantitative analysis such as topic modeling and statistic analysis. In this study, we collected statistical data related to consulting in the Scopus DB of Elsevier, which is a representative academic database, and conducted a quantitative analysis on 15,888 documents. We scientifically analyzed the research trends related to consulting based on the bibliographic data of academic research published all over the world. Specifically, the trends of the number of articles published in the major countries including Korea, the author key word trend, and the research topic trend were compared by country and year. This study is significant in that it presents the result of quantitative analysis based on bibliographic data in the academic DB in order to scientifically analyze the trend of academic research related to consulting. Especially, it is meaningful that the traditional frequency-based quantitative bibliographic analysis method and the text mining (topic modeling) technique are used together and analyzed. The results of this study can be used as a tool to guide the direction of research in consulting field. It is expected that it will help to predict the promising field, changes and trends of consulting industry related research through the trend analysis.

과학기술 수용자는 과학기술 변화과정을 결정하는 중요한 이해관계자이다. 하지 만 이들이 과학기술이슈에 대해 어떤 생각을 가지고 있는지 확인하는 기존의 방법들은 많은 노력과 시간이 필요한 것으로 알려져 왔다. 본 연구에서는 빅데이터 분석에 널리 사용되는 토 픽모델링을 활용해 온라인 토론장에 게시된 글을 분석하여 한국인의 원자력발전에 대한 인식 을 알아보고자 한다. 이것은 거시이슈들이 일반 과학기술 수용자 인식구조에 어떤 영향을 미 치며, 변화된 인식구조의 지속성을 이해하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다. 빅데이터를 이용해 실시간 으로 특정 과학기술이슈에 대한 일반인의 인식을 파악한다면, 과학기술 수용자(일반인)와 공 급자(전문가) 집단 사이의 인식간극을 줄이는데 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.