Author(s)

Alexander Báez Hernández¹, Debrayan Bravo Hidalgo²

¹Administrative Sciences Department, Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE), Quito, Ecuador.
²Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Quito, Ecuador.

The aim of this contribution is to show the detection of seminal papers using data mining techniques. To achieve the objective of this research, Rapidminer Studio software and its data mining tools are used, based on data created with information extracted from Google Scholar and Scopus, in three different areas of knowledge. In this process, other softwares such as Microsoft Excel and Publish or Perish are used. Comparing the results obtained for the searches in Knowledge Management, Entrepreneurship and Marketing, it was obtained that there is no marked similarity between the sets of articles that were obtained in Google Scholar and Scopus. The values for the Similarity Index remained below 0.52%, similar between Knowledge Management and Entrepreneurship but decreasing for Marketing. The detection of outliers using Data Mining techniques and in particular using Rapidminer, allowed to determine the seminals papers for the three search terms analyzed and allowed to characterize these in the space, in Google Scholar and Scopus. It was shown that the seminal articles can be different if Google Scholar or Scopus is used. The results suggest determining for other search terms whether the trend found is maintained or not.

Seminals Papers, Knowledge Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Outlier Detection, Data Mining, State of the Art

Hernández, A. and Hidalgo, D. (2020) Findings Seminal Papers Using Data Mining Techniques. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 8, 293-305. doi: 10.4236/jss.2020.89023.