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ArticlePloS one2018

The research topic landscape in the literature of social class and inequality.

Liang Guo, Shikun Li, Ruodan Lu, Lei Yin, Ariane Gorson-Deruel, Lawrence King

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors.

Liang GuoInstitute of Computational Social Science, Shandong University, Weihai, China.
Shikun LiInstitute of Computational Social Science, Shandong University, Weihai, China.
Ruodan LuEngineering Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9939-5959
Lei YinInstitut Supérieur de Management et Communication, Paris, France.
Ariane Gorson-DeruelKantar TNS, Paris, France.
Lawrence KingDepartment of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The literature of social class and inequality is not only diverse and rich in sight, but also complex and fragmented in structure. This article seeks to map the topic landscape of the field and identify salient development trajectories over time. We apply the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling technique to extract 25 distinct topics from 14,038 SSCI articles published between 1956 to 2017. We classified three topics as "hot", eight as "stable" and 14 as "cold", based on each topic's idiosyncratic temporal trajectory. We also listed the three most cited references and the three most popular journal outlets per topic. Our research suggests that future effort may be devoted to Topics "urban inequalities, corporate social responsibility and public policy in connected capitalism", "education and social inequality", "community health intervention and social inequality in multicultural contexts" and "income inequality, labor market reform and industrial relations".

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PMID29965983
PMCPMC6028105

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