Visualizing the Structure of Science

Download or read book Visualizing the Structure of Science written by Benjamín Vargas-Quesada and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a methodology for visualizing large scientific domains. Authors Moya-Anegón and Vargas-Queseda create science maps, so-called "scientograms", based on the interactions between authors and their papers through citations and co-citations, using approaches such as domain analysis, social networks, cluster analysis and pathfinder networks. The resulting scientograms offer manifold possibilities.