of possible interest

[Eugene Garfield]

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TITLE:          Scientific Collaboration between Russia and the EU
                Countries: A Bibliometric Analysis (Article, English)
AUTHOR:         Shaikevich, IVM
Email: ishaikev at mail.ru
SOURCE:         HERALD OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 80 (1). FEB
                2010. p.57-62 MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER, NEW
                YORK

By the co-inventor of co-citation analysis aka Irina Marshakova


 
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TITLE:          Mapping the Evolution of Scientific Fields (Article,
                English)
AUTHOR:         Herrera, M; Roberts, DC; Gulbahce, N
SOURCE:         PLOS ONE 5 (5). MAY 4 2010. p.NIL_16-NIL_21 PUBLIC
                LIBRARY SCIENCE, SAN FRANCISCO
Open Access
SEARCH TERM(S):  PRICE DJD  rauth

KEYWORDS+:       COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PREDICTION;
                SCIENCE; MAPS

ABSTRACT:       Despite the apparent cross-disciplinary interactions
among scientific fields, a formal description of their evolution is
lacking. Here we describe a novel approach to study the dynamics and
evolution of scientific fields using a network-based analysis. We build
an idea network consisting of American Physical Society Physics and
Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) numbers as nodes representing
scientific concepts. Two PACS numbers are linked if there exist
publications that reference them simultaneously. We locate scientific
fields using a community finding algorithm, and describe the time
evolution of these fields over the course of 1985-2006. The communities
we identify map to known scientific fields, and their age depends on
their size and activity. We expect our approach to quantifying the
evolution of ideas to be relevant for making predictions about the
future
of science and thus help to guide its development.

AUTHOR ADDRESS: M Herrera, Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD
20742
                USA

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