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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'birddog: Sniffing Emergence and Trajectories in Academic Papers and Patents'
version: 1.0.6
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.birddog
abstract: 'Provides a unified set of methods to detect scientific emergence and technological
  trajectories in academic papers and patents. The package combines citation network
  analysis with community detection and attribute extraction, also applying natural
  language processing (NLP) and structural topic modeling (STM) to uncover the contents
  of research communities. It implements metrics and visualizations of community trajectories,
  including novelty indicators, citation cycle time, and main path analysis, allowing
  researchers to map and interpret the dynamics of emerging knowledge fields. Applications
  of the method include: Souza et al. (2022) <https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.2441>, Souza
  et al. (2022) <https://doi.org/10.14211/ibjesb.e1742>, Matos et al. (2023) <https://doi.org/10.1007/s43938-023-00036-3>,
  Maria et al. (2023) <https://doi.org/10.3390/su15020967>, Biazatti et al. (2024)
  <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101074>, Felizardo et al. (2025) <https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-025-03136-z>,
  and Miranda et al. (2025) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.01.089>.'
authors:
- family-names: Souza
  given-names: Roney Fraga
  email: roneyfraga@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5750-489X
repository: https://roneyfraga.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/roneyfraga/birddog
commit: a14ed796312205824bc896fb99ad6b821fb3d89d
url: http://roneyfraga.com/birddog/
date-released: '2026-06-04'
contact:
- family-names: Souza
  given-names: Roney Fraga
  email: roneyfraga@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5750-489X