On the 8th February I delivered a seminar to my department (KMi @ OU) in which I described the work I have been doing in the last two years for my postgraduate research.
I started with a little bit of introduction about science. Shortly, I moved to the currently available technologies for keeping track of the development of the different research areas. I showed how this technologies were not satisfactory enough if we want to perform an early detection of research topics.
In presenting, the state of the art (including The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Kuhn), I could state my main hypothesis, regarding the existence of an embryonic stage that research areas face, and that it is possible to detect their emergence during this stage1.