A Map of Science, created by Sandian Kevin Boyack with collaborators Richard Klavans and Brad Paley, resembles a filamentous microorganism you might see under a microscope.
The map represents 800,000 scientific papers (shown as white dots) and shows relationships between them and different scientific disciplines. The “filaments” are common words unique to each “scientific paradigm” — the 776 red circular nodes or clusters of papers. Each node contains papers that are commonly cited together. Larger nodes have more papers. Nodes are connected with lines of various lengths and thicknesses, denoting the strength of the citation linkages between the nodes. Layout of the nodes was done using Sandia’s VxOrd clustering algorithm. Chemistry papers are found in the right-hand peninsula while astrophysics is located at the top. Medicine covers the large region at the lower left.
+ Map
+ High quality (300 dpi) JPEG image (4.6 MB)
+ Brad Paley’s Map of Science website
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