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Mapping social sciences and humanities – Impact,

Orientation, Understanding

Andrea Scharnhorst

June 23, 2014

ESOF2014 Mapping Social Sciences and Humanities Session

Andrea Scharnhorst – “science located”

•Head of Research&Innovation at DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services Institute•Scientific coordinator of the Computational Humanities programme at the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

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@scharnhorstaResearchGate; Mendeley; Academics.edu; LinkedIn

www.knowescape.org

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scimaps.org – Katy Borner – Map maker: Klavans/Boyack

Clickstream data map of science –

Bollen, Van Sompel, et al.

www.mesur.org

‘Reading behavior’

Frank van der Most ACUMEN

Hellsten et al. (2007) Self-citations Scientometrics

Han-Teng Liao, Oxford Internet Institute

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Almila Akdag Sahal, Cheng Gao, Krzysztof Suckecki, Andrea Scharnhorst; Places and Spaces, 7th Iteration, see http://www.scimaps.org/flat/exhibit_info/#7

ANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION ANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE LANDSCAPES AND KNOWLEDGE LANDSCAPES

Browse a collection or a database

Map size, structure, composition and evolution of the collection

Locate your search on such an interactive knowledge map

• Domain overview for students, interdisciplinary teams, lay experts and funding agencies

• Tools for scholars of history and philosophy of science and bibliometrics

• Overview of BigData collections (incl. social media)

Given the explosion of information how to navigate to find what is needed?

Information professionals•Collections, Information retrieval•WG 1 Phenomenology of knowledge spaces• WG 4 Data curation & navigation

Social scientists•Simulating user behavior•WG 2 Theory of knowledge spaces•WG 4 Data curation & navigation

Computer scientists •Semantic web, data models•WG 1 Phenomenology of Knowledge Spaces•WG 4 Data curation &navigation

Physicists, mathematicians

Digital humanities scholars•Collections, interactive design•WG 3 Visual analytics – knowledge maps•WG 4 Data curation & navigation

Participating communitiesParticipating communities

• Structure & evolution of complex knowledge spaces, big data mining

• WG 2 Theory of knowledge spaces

• WG 3 Visual analytics – knowledge maps

References• Borner, K. (2010). Atlas of Science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT

Press.• Borner, K., Klavans, R., Patek, M., Zoss, A. M., Biberstine,

J. R., Light, R. P., … Boyack, K. W. (2012). Design and update of a classification system: The ucsd map of science. PLoS ONE, 7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039464

• Boyack, K. W., & Klavans, R. (2014). Including cited non-source items in a large-scale map of science: What difference does it make? Journal of Informetrics, 8(3), 569–580. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2014.04.001

• Börner, K., & Scharnhorst, A. (2009). Visual conceptualizations and models of science. Editorial. Special issue “Science of Science: Conceptualizations and Models of Science.” Journal of Informetrics, 3(3), 161–172. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2009.03.008

• Leydesdorff, L., Rafols, I., & Chen, C. (2013). Interactive Overlays of Journals and the Measurement of Interdisciplinarity on the basis of Aggregated Journal-Journal Citations. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(12), 2573–2586. Digital Libraries. doi:10.1002/asi.22946

• Bar-Ilan, J. (2014). Evaluating the individual researcher – adding an altmetric perspective. Research Trends, (37), 31–32.

• MORE http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1581483/knowescape-the-dynamics-of-information-and-knowledge-landscapes/

• Sci2 tool https://sci2.cns.iu.edu/

• http://www.vosviewer.com/• http://

www.citnetexplorer.nl/Home

• ManyEyes http://www.manyeyes.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/

• Data Driven Documents http://d3js.org/