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of Science. The country rankings based on the number of articles are shown in
Table 3.

Table 3 Top 10 countries ranked according to the number of big data
articles (2016)
Rank Country/Reason Number of Rank Country/Reason Number
Articles of Articles
1 USA 894 6 CANADA 127
2 CHINA 625 7 SOUTH KOREA 118
3 UK*1 242 8 ITALY 95
4 AUSTRALIA 140 9 SPAIN 95
5 GERMANY 137 10 JAPAN 71
- Top 10 Total 2544
*1: UK consists of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland is a member of the EU.
*2: NA & SA are abbreviations of North America and South America.

5. Result
In this section, the quantitatively analyze the degree of country-specific
approximation of MM-Index using the data of Big data. The new knowledge
added is the introduction of multiple comparison method based on
Bonferroni's inequality, and its related method. Figure 2 shown Big data’s
individual cooperation patterns between subject areas (2016).

Figure 2 Big data’s individual cooperation patterns between subject areas
(2016)
The feature of this figure lies in determining the thickness of each
connection line based on the maximum value in the connection between
specialized fields. On the other hand, since there are different number of
researchers in each specialized field, when evaluating the strength of the

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