Flickr in research

Nathan Fox

2019-29-04

Flickr papers

To understand how Flickr is currently being use in scientific research we investigated the discipline and scope of articles with the keyword flickr in the PLoS journals.

plos <- rplos::searchplos(q='flickr', 
                          fl=c('id','publication_date','subject', 'subject_level_1'),
                          limit = 200)$data %>% 
  
  mutate(keywords = map_chr(subject, get_kw),
         subjects = subject_level_1)

There are a total of 200 papers with the keyword flickr in the PLoS journals.

Subject frequency

To understand which disciplines of science are using Flickr we calculated the frequency of papers in each research field:

plos %>% 
  pull(subjects) %>% 
  paste(collapse = ",") %>% 
  str_split(",") %>% 
  table %>% 
  as_tibble()

## # A tibble: 12 × 2
##    .                                      n
##    <chr>                              <int>
##  1 Biology and life sciences            122
##  2 Computer and information sciences     66
##  3 Earth sciences                        34
##  4 Ecology and environmental sciences    31
##  5 Engineering and technology            30
##  6 Medicine and health sciences         119
##  7 NA                                     1
##  8 People and places                     48
##  9 Physical sciences                     42
## 10 Research and analysis methods         92
## 11 Science policy                        33
## 12 Social sciences                      114

Keyword Wordcloud

To understand what topics are covered by Flickr researches we found the frequency of other keywords attributed to Flickr papers:

kws <- plos %>% pull(keywords) %>% paste(collapse = ",") %>% str_split(",") %>% table %>% as.data.frame



wordcloud(words = kws$., freq = kws$Freq, min.freq = 1,
          max.words=200, random.order=FALSE, rot.per=0.35, 
          colors=brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))