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

Ràfols, Ismael; Porter, Alan L.; Leydesdorff, Loet

doi:10.1002/asi.21368

Cited by 379 publications

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“…A search in the bibliographic database Web of Knowledge 3 retrieves 1418 documents. In a global map of science [5] Fig.2 (b)). If we take a closer look at the scholarly publications around the term, we see that in the early years of the Internet, the definitions mostly were grounded in the usage of certain tools: Email, chat rooms such as Internet Relay Chat (IRC), discussion forums, etc.…”

Section: Mapping Virtual Communitiesmentioning

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Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

2015

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Abstract. Digital Humanities (DH) has been depicted as an innovative engine for humanities, as a challenge for Data Science, and as an area where libraries, archives and providers of e-research infrastructures join forces with research pioneers. However DH is defined, one thing is certain: DH is a new community which manifests and identifies itself via the Internet and social media. In this paper we propose to describe DH as a virtual community (VC), and discuss the implications of such an epistemic approach. We start with a (re)inspection of the scholarly discourse about VCs, and the analytic frameworks which have been applied to study them. We discuss the aspects that are highlighted by taking such a stance, and use the guidelines proposed by the FP7 European Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS) in our investigation.

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Section: Mapping Virtual Communitiesmentioning

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“…All the articles citing this set is another set of 281 articles 5 . First of all, this is a relatively small number, even one recognizes that Arts & Humanities are not well-represented in this database and that the citation culture of the humanities prefers books to articles as the primary publication venue.…”

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Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

2015

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“…As with most contaminants FIGURE 2: Science overlay map for Nano EHS research. This map represents the scientific fields involved with Nano EHS research (for Methods, see Rafols et al [19]). Disciplines are positioned in the map near others with related or similar characteristics, whereas those disciplines that are dissimilar are positioned at distant locations.…”

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“…If we compare this map with a science overlay map for all of nanotechnology [20], we note that while both maps share heavy concentrations in Chemistry and Materials Science, the roles of Environmental Science and especially Biomedical Science become much more pronounced in Nano EHS research. Figure adapted from Rafols et al [19].…”

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Paradigms to assess the environmental impact of manufactured nanomaterials

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“…We follow in our study an approach proposed by Rafols, Porter & Lydesdorff [5]. The basis for the analysis is a scientometric analysis of datasets from the Web of Science (WoS) by Thompson Reuters.…”

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What Happened to the Crossdisciplinarity of Technology-Enhanced Learning in 2004?

Kalz

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In a recent study the crossdisciplinarity of the field of TechnologyEnhanced Learning was analysed with science-overlay-maps and diversity measures. Results reveal that the crossdisciplinarity of the field has constantly increased over the last 10 years. Only in 2004, a significant decrease of interdisciplinary research could be identified. In this paper we take a closer look at the publications of this year and test our hypotheses for the decrease of crossdisciplinarity. IntroductionTechnology-enhanced learning (TEL) is defined as an interdisciplinary field of research to which a number of disciplines contribute, namely: cognitive science, educational psychology, computer science, anthropology, sociology, information sciences, neurosciences, education, design studies, instructional design and others. According to Sawyer the field has been established in the late 1980ies based on the recognition that new scientific methods are needed that go beyond their own research field [1].There are currently only a few qualitative studies about interdisciplinarity of TEL showing a mixture of methods and academics backgrounds of researchers in the field [2,3]. While these studies report relevant findings most studies have the limitations that their data basis is small and that the approach chosen is not scalable. In this paper we report results from a recent study that uses science-overlay maps and diversity measures to analyse the crossdisciplinarity of the TEL field [4]. In this study a steady increase of crossdisciplinarity could be identified for the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning. Only in 2004 there was a drop of crossdisciplinarity. We use science overlay maps and diversity measures to analyse the reasons for this decrease. In the next part we summarize the method chosen, then we present results of the analysis and discuss our findings.

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

Cited by 379 publications

References 99 publications

Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

Paradigms to assess the environmental impact of manufactured nanomaterials

What Happened to the Crossdisciplinarity of Technology-Enhanced Learning in 2004?

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