From Derek Price’s Network of Scientific Papers to Advanced Science Mapping

This chapter presents two visionary papers published by Derek de Solla Price, the founding father of the science of science. It presents his view on the scientific literature as a network of scientific papers, and introduces important informetric concepts, including ‘research front’ and ‘immediacy e...

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Published inApplied Evaluative Informetrics pp. 177 - 191
Main Author Moed, Henk F
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Springer International Publishing
SeriesQualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication
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Bibliographic coupling
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Co-word analysis
Data mining
Educational: Sciences, general science
Immediacy effect
Information flow
Information retrieval
Literature practices
Relational structure
Similarity matrix
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ISBN9783319605210
3319605216
ISSN2365-8371
2365-838X
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-60522-7_13

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Summary:This chapter presents two visionary papers published by Derek de Solla Price, the founding father of the science of science. It presents his view on the scientific literature as a network of scientific papers, and introduces important informetric concepts, including ‘research front’ and ‘immediacy effect’. Next, the chapter shows how his pioneering work on modelling the relational structure of subject space evolved into the creation of a series of currently available, advanced science mapping tools.
Bibliography:This chapter is based on a lecture presented by the author in a doctoral course given in February 2015 at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering in the Sapienza University of Rome.
ISBN:9783319605210
3319605216
ISSN:2365-8371
2365-838X
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-60522-7_13