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Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Science

This research explores the use of maps to answer questions about major research areas, experts, institutions, regions, grants, publications, and the impact of research in various fields. The goal is to understand the dynamics and connections within the scientific community and the influence of funding on publications.

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Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Science

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  1. Computational Scientometrics: • Mapping the Structure and Evolution • of Science • Katy Börner & the InfoVis Lab • School of Library and Information Science • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN • katy@indiana.edu • Maps of Science help answer questions such as: • What are the major research areas, experts, institutions, regions, nations, • grants, publications, journals in xx research? • Which areas are most insular? • What are the main connections for each area? • What is the relative speed of areas? • Which areas are the most dynamic/static? • What new research areas are evolving? • Impact of xx research on other fields? • How does funding influence the number and quality of publications? • Answers are needed by funding agencies, companies, researchers & society. • Shiffrin, Richard M. and Börner, Katy (Eds.) (2004). Mapping Knowledge Domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(Suppl_1). • Börner, Katy, Chen, Chaomei, and Boyack, Kevin. (2003). Visualizing Knowledge Domains. In Blaise Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, Volume 37, Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc./American Society for Information Science and Technology, chapter 5, pp. 179-255.

  2. Mapping the Evolution of Co-Authorship Networks (Ke, Visvanath & Börner, 2005) Mapping Medline Papers, Genes, and Proteins Related to Melanoma Research (Boyack, Mane & Börner, 2004) Mapping the Evolution of Co-Authorship Networks (Ke, Visvanath & Börner, 2004) Spatio-Temporal Information Production and Consumption of Major U.S. Research Institutions (Börner & Penumarthy, 2005)

  3. Studying the Emerging Global Brain: Analyzing and Visualizing the Impact of Co-Authorship Teams (Börner, Dall’Asta, Ke & Vespignani, 2005) Mapping Indiana’s Intellectual Space Science Maps for Kids(Rohberg, 2006)

  4. Network Ecologies Most real world networks exist within a delicate ecology of networks. To fully understand, e.g., the knowledge diffusion among authors via their papers, different networks need to be considered simultaneously. TARL simulates the co-evolution of paper-citation and co-author networks. Authors Co-authoring Ph.D. Students Papers Grants

  5. Places & Spaces: Cartography of the Physical and the Abstract The first iteration of this science exhibit compares and contrasts first maps of our entire planet with the first maps of all of sciences. http://vw.indiana.edu/places&spaces/

  6. The Power of MapsFour Early Maps of Our World VERSUS Six Early Maps of Science(1st Iteration of Places & Spaces Exhibit - 2005)

  7. The Power of Reference SystemsFour Existing Reference Systems VERSUS Six Potential Reference Systems of Science(2nd Iteration of Places & Spaces Exhibit - 2006) For Sale!

  8. The Power of ForecastsFour Existing Forecasts VERSUS Six Potential Science ‘Weather’ Forecasts(3rd Iteration of Places & Spaces Exhibit - 2007) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

  9. http://www.scotese.com/

  10. http://www.weather.gov

  11. Named Storms, available online at http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003200/a003279

  12. CAREER: Visualizing Knowledge Domains. NSF IIS-0238261 award (Katy Börner, $440,000) Sept. 03-Aug. 08. SEI: NetWorkBench: A Large-Scale Network Analysis, Modeling and Visualization Toolkit for Biomedical, Social Science and Physics Research. NSF IIS-0513650 award (Katy Börner, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Santiago Schnell, Alessandro Vespignani & Stanley Wasserman, Craig Stewart (Senior Personnel), $1,120,926) Sept. 05 - Aug. 08.

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