For those who are not experts in a particular scientific field, it is difficult to understand scientific research trends. Although studies on the extraction of research trends have been conducted, most focus on extracting global trends from large-scale data, and the methods are often complicated. The purpose of this study is to develop a method of obtaining overviews of a scientific field for non-experts by capturing research trends simply and then to verify the method. To extract research topics which should express research trends, text analysis was performed using abstracts over 12 years of articles on high-temperature superconductors. We characterised three topics for the extracted word groups that frequently occurred. For these topics, we studied their appropriateness using a method that has been little used: examining research articles, review literature and co-citations among research articles used to extract the words, comparisons with controlled index terms assigned to the articles and confirming that there were no contradictions. Based on the established method, we have also applied this method to another research field: ‘simulation and modelling’. Although the method used in this article is simple, important topics were extracted, and the relations with the original articles are clear, which can lead to further investigation of the extracted topics.
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