Abstract: Background
Intricate maps of science have been created from citation data to visualize the structure of scientific activity. However, most scientific publications are now accessed online. Scholarly web portals record detailed log data at a scale that exceeds the number of all existing citations combined. Such log data is recorded immediately upon publication and keeps track of the sequences of user requests (clickstreams) that are issued by a variety of users across many different domains. Given these advantages of log datasets over citation data, we investigate whether they can produce high-resolution, more current maps of science.Read more...
Citation: Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Bettencourt L, Chute R, et al. (2009) Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4803. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004803
Editor: Alan Ruttenberg, Science Commons, United States of America
Received: June 25, 2008; Accepted: February 6, 2009; Published: March 11, 2009
Additional links:Nature: news; Web usage data outline map of knowledge
Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on "Mapping Knowledge Domains"
Open University: Compendium
Hodges' model SCIENCES domain links (Visualization)
My source: Humanist list
