Honey bees have been an important area of research and study going back at least to the days of Aristotle in the third century B.C. The amount and breadth of this research have been steadily increasing over time, especially during the modern age with the growing importance of honey bees to our society in agriculture, economics, food, medicine, and even computing technology. Even for those familiar with bees and scientific literature, the volume and diversity of information can be daunting. The aim of this study is to survey the last 100 years of available scientific research related to or inspired by honey bees and show its evolution, progression, and diversification through time by using text mining to conduct both a historical and topical analysis on the last 100 years of this research. This process shows how this research has grown and evolved over time while informing researchers of the depth, breadth, and dynamic nature of the research. This paper presents the analysis of the titles and abstracts of the 30,355 unique peer reviewed journal articles we identified related to honey bees and beekeeping and articulates relevant topics and changes over 100 years of bee research analyzed in ten time periods from 1917 through 2016. This study shows how honey bee research has evolved from a sub-field of other disciplines to a strong discipline in its own right and how it has further been enriched by contributions from other sciences.

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一个世纪的发现：挖掘 100 年的蜜蜂研究

蜜蜂一直是一个重要的研究领域，至少可以追溯到公元前三世纪的亚里士多德时代。随着时间的推移，这项研究的数量和广度一直在稳步增加，尤其是在现代，蜂蜜的重要性日益增加蜜蜂在农业、经济、食品、医学，甚至计算技术方面为我们的社会带来了好处。即使对于那些熟悉蜜蜂和科学文献的人来说，信息的数量和多样性也可能令人生畏。本研究的目的是调查与蜜蜂相关或受蜜蜂启发的过去 100 年的可用科学研究，并通过使用文本挖掘对过去 100 年进行历史和主题分析来展示其随时间的演变、进展和多样化。年的这项研究。这个过程展示了这项研究如何随着时间的推移而发展和演变，同时让研究人员了解研究的深度、广度和动态性质。本文对我们确定的与蜜蜂和养蜂相关的 30,355 篇独特的同行评审期刊文章的标题和摘要进行了分析，并阐明了从 1917 年到 2016 年的十个时间段内分析的 100 多年蜜蜂研究的相关主题和变化。 本研究展示了蜜蜂研究如何从其他学科的一个子领域发展成为一个强大的学科，以及如何通过其他科学的贡献进一步丰富它。