“…Recently, big data approaches have been proposed, given that the diffusion of online databases of scientific publications (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed) now allows the realisation of network analysis, bibliometric analysis, and scientometric analysis of huge datasets of academic literature as critical sources of information on biomedical work. The main outcomes of this kind of quantitative approach—automatically generated by the algorithms of dedicated bibliometric and scientometric software analysis—are sophisticated maps and cartographies visualising networks of co‐authorships or co‐citations, or the temporal formation of specific scientific communities (see Newman, ; Cambrosio, Keating, Mercier, et al, ; Mogoutov, Cambrosio, Keating, & Mustar, ; Navon & Shwed, ). Thus, this kind of graphic visualisation concerning the dynamic of knowledge production of a given biomedical field requires careful interpretation by social researchers, since they are not intrinsically evocative of the processual and collective dimensions on which TR relies.…”