Visualization of Disciplinary Profiles: Enhanced Science Overlay Maps

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

doi:10.1515/jdis-2017-0015

Cited by 51 publications

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“…Even though a bibliometric approach is not the perfect tool for all fields and in all circumstances, there are many publications that confirm the fact that bibliometric analysis is used as a tool by all scientific communities: to appraise the quality of a research field [36,37]; to evaluate the quality of a journal [38,39]; to establish a scientific portrait by looking at the activity of a researcher, or group of researchers [40,41]; to classify types of scientific networks and map scientific collaborations, on inter-institutional, national, and international levels [42,43]; to evaluate the influence of financing certain programs and/or projects on scientific production [44,45]; to set up hierarchies, by comparing one country to another, one institution in relation to a country, and even researchers and scientists in relation to their own scientific communities [6,[46][47][48]. At the same time, bibliometric analysis can be applied to macro analyses (e.g., a country's quota in the global production of scientific literature during a given period of time), as well as to micro studies (e.g., the role of an institution in producing articles in a scientific field) [45,49].…”

Section: Literature Review Of Bibliometric Studies On Esdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Education for Sustainable Development: Evolution and Perspectives: A Bibliometric Review of Research, 1992–2018

2019

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In recent years, the interest in research concerning Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has grown considerably. Therefore, a thorough (re)evaluation of this field and its challenges is highly necessary and can help us better understand the diversity of ESD approaches and the ways in which various scholars, countries, institutions, or universities reacted through research and scientific publications to the study of ESD. Using a bibliometric approach, we analyzed 1813 papers on the subject, indexed by the Web of Science, between 1992 and 2018. The main findings increased our understanding of the ESD domain: we identified vital research, landmark studies in the development of the field, critical past contributions, emerging trends, and potentially transformative ideas. The number of publications, authors, and journals has increased, proving that ESD has gained momentum over the period examined in the study. Similarly, there are more and more works written in collaboration by people (scholars, researchers, etc.) from different parts and cultures of the world, indicating that publishing on ESD is like a legacy to international efforts to bring this area of inquiry into the mainstream. Finally, the study illustrates two main research directions for the entire timespan: integration of education into sustainable development and of sustainable development into education.

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Section: Literature Review Of Bibliometric Studies On Esdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Education for Sustainable Development: Evolution and Perspectives: A Bibliometric Review of Research, 1992–2018

2019

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“…3Profile of synthetic biology research by clusters and subjects, arrayed on the map of science. Source : Synthetic biology articles (from WoS SCI-EXPANDED and SSCI), 2000–2015 ( N = 5806). Map of science method from Carley et al (2016), using VOSviewer (Van Eck and Waltman 2016), with customization of 2015 WoS 18-category macro-discipline labels for synthetic biology …”

Section: Analysis Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The base map is a representation of the underlying structure of science, based on the analysis of co-citation patterns among subject categories of all WoS-indexed journals. We draw on the enhanced overlay science base map and the clustering of subject categories into 18 macro-disciplines constructed with 2015 WoS journal data by Carley et al ( 2016 ) and visualized with VOSviewer (van Eck and Waltman 2016 ). The VOSviewer clustering method and algorithm is used (van Eck and Waltman 2010 ).…”

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Tracking the emergence of synthetic biology

2017

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Synthetic biology is an emerging domain that combines biological and engineering concepts and which has seen rapid growth in research, innovation, and policy interest in recent years. This paper contributes to efforts to delineate this emerging domain by presenting a newly constructed bibliometric definition of synthetic biology. Our approach is dimensioned from a core set of papers in synthetic biology, using procedures to obtain benchmark synthetic biology publication records, extract keywords from these benchmark records, and refine the keywords, supplemented with articles published in dedicated synthetic biology journals. We compare our search strategy with other recent bibliometric approaches to define synthetic biology, using a common source of publication data for the period from 2000 to 2015. The paper details the rapid growth and international spread of research in synthetic biology in recent years, demonstrates that diverse research disciplines are contributing to the multidisciplinary development of synthetic biology research, and visualizes this by profiling synthetic biology research on the map of science. We further show the roles of a relatively concentrated set of research sponsors in funding the growth and trajectories of synthetic biology. In addition to discussing these analyses, the paper notes limitations and suggests lines for further work.

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“…There is a large agreement on the structural properties of the world map of science (Klavans and Boyack 2009). More recently, overlay maps that allow the interpretation of distance between nodes have been introduced for mapping science, using publication data (Rafols et al 2010;Leydesdorff andRafols 2009, 2012;Carley et al 2017) and for mapping technology, using patent data (Leydesdorff et al 2014;Kay et al 2014). Overlay maps position individual entities, such as universities, companies, regions or countries, in the global world map of science or technology.…”

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Impact for whom? Mapping the users of public research with lexicon-based text mining

2020

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We contribute to the debate on societal impact of SSH by developing a methodology that allows a fine-grained observation of social groups that make use, directly or indirectly, of the results of research. We develop a lexicon of users with 76,857 entries, which saturates the semantic field of social groups of users and allows normalization. We use the lexicon in order to filter text structures in the 6637 impact case studies collected under the Research Excellence Framework in the UK. We then follow the steps recommended by Börner et al. (Annu Rev Inf Sci Technol 37:179–255, 2003) to build up visual maps of science, using co-occurrence of words describing users of research. We explore the properties of this novel kind of maps, in which science is seen from the perspective of research users.

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Visualization of Disciplinary Profiles: Enhanced Science Overlay Maps

Cited by 51 publications

References 39 publications

Education for Sustainable Development: Evolution and Perspectives: A Bibliometric Review of Research, 1992–2018

Education for Sustainable Development: Evolution and Perspectives: A Bibliometric Review of Research, 1992–2018

Tracking the emergence of synthetic biology

Impact for whom? Mapping the users of public research with lexicon-based text mining

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