Cropped Susiexr Smaller.jpgDr Susie Xi Rao

Dr Susie Xi Rao is a senior scientific staff at the Chair of Applied Economics at ETHZ, with research interests in dynamic network analysis, information extraction, and natural language processing. She has worked on projects in pattern matching and record linkage, legal text analysis, and fraud detection. Currently, she is mainly working on projects involving hierarchical classification of research fields and understanding discipline connectedness. In addition, since Nov. 2022 she has been a Guest Lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, leading lab exercises for the module "Fraud Detection".

A Hierarchical Classification System of Research Fields to Understand Research Interconnectedness

by
Abstract illustration of the interconnectedness of institutions, researchers, labs and publications

Today’s challenges in scientometrics include overemphasis on existing metrics and the need for improved interdisciplinary indices [1,2,3,5,8]. An interdisciplinary project team based at ETH Zurich, co-lead by Prof. Peter Egger (economist) and Prof. Ce Zhang (computer scientist), addressed this issue by developing a hierarchical classification system that categorizes publications into disciplines, fields, and subfields based … Read more