Citespace, again
August 15th, 2006
Citespace is fun. I’m not sure, though, if it will become a permanent addition to my toolbox. I am, mind you, a qualitative historian, not a quant one.
Will it be useful as a tentative mapping device when I begin looking at a field, before the actual reading of papers and books, doing interviews and so on that I normally do?
Say for instance that I would like to know more about visualization in bioinformatics, a field I know nothing about. Let’s go!
A dataset was extracted from Web of Science with the search terms “bioinformatics AND visualization”. This was the result.
Well, it seems that Altschul, Kanehisha, Davidson and Ashburner has published quite central papers. It is also apparent that another group of papers exist, that is disconnected from the main group. (Why?)
One wonders what someone with real qualitative knowledge of the field would think of the results.
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