Map of scientific collaboration between researchers | Stuff I made

http://olihb.com/2011/01/23/map-of-scientific-collaboration-between-researchers/

by muon • 15 years ago

14 2 15 years ago

Facebook map is interesting because the people are geolocated, and friendship is usually personal - interesting to see how the digital revolution has affected that.

Scientific papers are about ideas not people. Unless you're looking for a job, or a coffee shop likely to be high in PhDs, not sure this is the right projection.

How about an idea-centric map of some kind? Or place researchers in an imaginary spherical idea-space, let us see who are the stars, who are peripheral.

Anyway I think forcing the map to geography is disguising more interesting patterns.

olihb• 15 years ago

Hi, I'm the one that did this map. We do semantic and field centric maps all the time and they get no attention. This map got worldwide press for some simple reasons:

-you can see historic connections (links between Europe and Africa)

-it underlines the fact that some part of the world have more research (obvious, but all cool to know)

-and it's pretty nice looking

Map of scientific collaboration between researchers | Stuff I made

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