Analysing research dynamics in Anthropology at Algerian universities using co-word analysis: scientometric survey

Abstract

Anthropology is one of the new sciences that appeared and taught in Algeria. Therefore, the outcome of the Algerian scientific production was somewhat small compared to the scientific production in the various disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. To study the development of intellectual production in the field of anthropology, we used the topics of anthropology studied in Algerian universities and registered in the National Portal for Notification of Theses PNST as a study sample, and by relying on science measurement techniques that are concerned with studying science developments and their substantive links, especially verbal accompaniment technology, in order to study the emergence of new topics, their development, and their extinction. We also used Nodexl to map the relationships between anthropology topics and then worked on analyzing these relationships using network science concepts.