The intellectual base and research fronts of JASIS 1986–1990
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Comparative study on methods of detecting research fronts using different types of citation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Visualizing evolving networks: minimum spanning trees versus pathfinder networks
INFOVIS'03 Proceedings of the Ninth annual IEEE conference on Information visualization
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In this work the well known scientometric concepts of bibliographically coupled publications and co-cited references were applied to produce interactive maps of research fronts and knowledge bases of research fields. This article proposes a method and some standardization for the detection and visualization of research fronts and knowledge bases with two and three dimensional graphics inspired by geographical maps. Agglomerations of bibliographically coupled publications with a common knowledge base are identified and graphically represented by a density function of publications per area unit. The research fronts become visible if publications with similar vectors of common citations are associated and visualized as an ensemble in a three dimensional graphical representation as a mountain scenery measured with the help of a spatial density. Knowledge bases were calculated in the same way. Maps similar to the geographic representation of oceans and islands are used to visualize the two-dimensional spatial density function of references weighted by individual links. The proposed methodology is demonstrated by publications in the field of battery research.