The Rise of Asian Palaeontology: A Bibliometric and Semantic Analysis of Global and Regional Research Trends

1. OverviewThis dataset contains the R scripts and custom linguistic filters (stopwords) used to analyze paleontological research trends. It compares Web of Science bibliographic data with digitized conference programs from APC (Asian Palaeontological Congress) and IPC (International Palaeontological Congress). 2. File InventoryR Scripts (4 files of R scripts):Wos_Asia_Only.R: This script executes the primary Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling for the Asian paleontological research corpus extracted from Web of Science.APC1_vs_IPC5.R: This script conducts a comparative thematic analysis between the 1st Asian Palaeontological Congress (APC1) and the 5th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC5).APC2_vs_IPC6.R: This script conducts a comparative thematic analysis between the 2ed Asian Palaeontological Congress (APC2) and the 6th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC6).Asia_vs_APC1_vs_APC2_LDA.R: An advanced comparative script that evaluates the stability and evolution of research themes across three distinct datasets (WoS Asia, APC1, and APC2). Stopword Lists (3 files):StopWordNew.txt: General paleontological noise filters.Stopwords_LDAWOSMerged.txt: Comprehensive filters for WoS metadata.StopWordsFiltered_Program.txt: Filters for conference logistics and author names. 3. Software RequirementsEnvironment: R (version 4.x or higher).Recommended IDE: RStudio.Required Libraries: bibliometrix, topicmodels, tm, tidytext, LDAvis, ggplot2, pheatmap.Note: Scripts are designed to auto-install missing packages. 4. Quick StartPlace all .R scripts, .txt stopword lists, and your raw data files in the same working directory.Open any .R script in RStudio.Ensure the file paths in the script match your local filenames.Run the script to generate interactive HTML visualizations or PDF figures.