Lucio-Arias D. Leydesdorff L. "Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from "fullerenes" to "nanotubes" SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.603-632 Springer Dordrecht

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: dlucioarias at fmg.uva.nl 

TITLE:          Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from
                Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from
                "fullerenes" to "nanotubes"  (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Lucio-Arias, D; Leydesdorff, L
SOURCE:         SCIENTOMETRICS 70 (3). MAR 2007. p.603-632 SPRINGER,
                DORDRECHT

KEYWORDS+:       SCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PATTERNS; INTERDISCIPLINARITY;
                COLLABORATION; NANOSCIENCE; INDICATORS; ALGORITHM

ABSTRACT:       This article explores the emergence of knowledge from
scientific discoveries and their effects on the structure of scientific 
communication. Network analysis is applied to understand this emergence 
institutionally as changes in the journals; semantically as changes in the 
codification of meaning in terms of words; and cognitively as the new 
knowledge becomes the emergent foundation of further developments. The 
discovery of fullerenes in 1985 is analyzed as the scientific discovery 
that triggered a process which led to research in nanotubes.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: D Lucio-Arias, Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam Sch Commun Res,
                Kloveniersburgwal 48, NL-1012 CX Amsterdam, Netherlands