Identifying ISI-indexed articles by their lexical usage: A text analysis approach

This research creates an architecture for investigating the existence of probable lexical divergences between articles, categorized as Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and non-ISI, and consequently, if such a difference is discovered, to propose the best available classification method. Based on a collection of ISI- and non-ISI-indexed articles in the areas of business and computer science, three classification models are trained. A sensitivity analysis is applied to demonstrate the impact of words in different syntactical forms on the classification decision. The results demonstrate that the lexical domains of ISI and non-ISI articles are distinguishable by machine learning techniques. Our findings indicate that the support vector machine identifies ISI-indexed articles in both disciplines with higher precision than do the Naïve Bayesian and K-Nearest Neighbors techniques.