An n-Gram Analysis of Communications 2000-2010

Culturomic analysis of Communications is presented showing how natural language processing can be used to quantitatively explore the identity and culture of an institution over time, inspired by the n-gram project released in 2010 by Google labs. To appreciate how the identity of Communications has evolved, a corpus of the complete text of every article published from 2000 to 2010 is constructed. The standardized frequency values indicated how often a particular n-gram appeared in Communications during a particular year relative to the total quantity of text published in it that year. It is found that several of the terms showing the most growth were related to science and technology, while several of the declining terms were related to business and management. The n-gram analysis also revealed changes in Communications' use of gender-related terms from 2000 to 2010.