Pathfinder associative networks: studies in knowledge organization
Pathfinder associative networks: studies in knowledge organization
Structures and strategies of interdisciplinary science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Bibliometric overview of library and information science research in Spain
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The Rise of the Network Society
The Rise of the Network Society
Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization
Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization
Visualizing scientific paradigms: an introduction
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Paradigms, citations, and maps of science: a personal history
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Why do we need algorithmic historiography?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visualization of the citation impact environments of scientific journals: An online mapping exercise
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon
Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon
The intellectual and social organization of academic fields and the shaping of digital resources
Journal of Information Science
Visualizing the Structure of Science
Visualizing the Structure of Science
Toward a consensus map of science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Scholarly research and information practices: a domain analytic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Scholarship and disciplinary practices
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
A bibliometric chronicling of library and information science's first hundred years
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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The objective of this article is to introduce a socially oriented approach to the analysis and representation of the social and intellectual structure of scientific fields. A sociological perspective is introduced as the theoretical basis to analyze scientific fields, and the social network framework is adopted to develop a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the organization of science. This approach is then applied to study the Spanish Library and Information Science community from 1999 to 2007. The underlying notion is that science is organized work, in which the pursuit of impact shapes the specific scientific organization. This generates mutual dependence and control among researchers, which may restrict access when formally communicating with other scientific communities. On the other hand, scholarly journals facilitate the coordination of new knowledge and serve as platforms for interaction among scientists. Consequently, the interaction of well-defined groups of homogenous researchers, concentrated around particular sets of journals, leads to the formation of cohesive (sub)groups tied together by the degree of similarity of the researchers' competence. An empirical test suggests that this consideration can accurately reveal a segment of the structure of the scientific field. This study therefore introduces a new approach for mapping the structure of scientific fields that differs from most existing methods, which are based on (co)citation. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.