preprint version overlay toolkit for global science mapping

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Science overlay maps: a new tool for research policy and library management

 

Ismael Rafols, Alan L. Porter and Loet Leydesdorff

 

We present a novel approach to visually locate bodies of research within the
sciences, both at each moment of time and dynamically.  This article
describes how this approach fits with other efforts to locally and globally
map scientific outputs.  We then show how these science overlay maps help
benchmark, explore collaborations, and track temporal changes, using
examples of universities, corporations, funding agencies, and research
topics.  We address conditions of application, with their advantages,
downsides and limitations. Overlay maps especially help investigate the
increasing number of scientific developments and organisations that do not
fit within traditional disciplinary categories. We make these tools
accessible to help researchers explore the ongoing socio-cognitive
transformation of science and technology systems.

 

pdf at http://www.leydesdorff.net/overlaytoolkit/overlaytoolkit.pdf

html at http://www.leydesdorff.net/overlaytoolkit/overlaytoolkit.htm 

 

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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam.
Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111
 <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> loet at leydesdorff.net ;
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/> http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 


 
 
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