Science 2.0 (provisional mind map)

2005

Summary This paper presents a new map representing the structure of all of science, based on journal articles, including both the natural and social sciences. Similar to cartographic maps of our world, the map of science provides a bird's eye view of today's scientific landscape. It can be used to visually identify major areas of science, their size, similarity, and interconnectedness. In order to be useful, the map needs to be accurate on a local and on a global scale.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009

A consensus map of science is generated from an analysis of 20 existing maps of science. These 20 maps occur in three basic forms: hierarchical, centric, and noncentric (or circular). The consensus map, generated from consensus edges that occur in at least half of the input maps, emerges in a circular form. The ordering of areas is as follows: mathematics is (arbitrarily) placed at the top of the circle, and is followed clockwise by physics, physical chemistry, engineering, chemistry, earth sciences, biology, biochemistry, infectious diseases, medicine, health services, brain research, psychology, humanities, social sciences, and computer science. The link between computer science and mathematics completes the circle. If the lowest weighted edges are pruned from this consensus circular map, a hierarchical map stretching from mathematics to social sciences results. The circular map of science is found to have a high level of correspondence with the 20 existing maps, and has a variety of advantages over hierarchical and centric forms. A onedimensional Riemannian version of the consensus map is also proposed.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS, 2019

This work is formed as a set of thematic mind maps for presentation during authors’ speech and further discussion during symposium BalticSTE2019. Selected mind maps are large-scale philosophy and psychology- based maps for general orientation within the complex situations when we are searching for definite solutions of concrete particular problems. All mind maps present visualization of definite thoughts’ arrangement within corresponding structures, what are well-known products of systemic organization of humans’ thinking. Keywords: general science education, philosophy of Science, systems theory.

Science

The future of scientific societies AAAS (the publisher of Science) turns 175 years old this year. AAAS's mission is to advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefi t of all. To celebrate this milestone and explore AAAS's anniversary theme of "igniting progress for the next 175," we asked young scientists, "How have scientifi c societies aff ected your career, and how can societies best support scientists in the future?" Read a selection of the responses here. Follow NextGen Voices on Twitter with hashtag #NextGenSci.-Jennifer Sills Inclusion Scientific societies have given me the opportunity to attend events, enter contests, and start a science communication project. Ensuring more representation of neurodivergent researchers and other minorities in scientific societies is what drives me, as an autistic researcher, to pursue my goals. Scientific societies' most important role in the future will be inclusion. When scientific societies care about sharing the work and struggles of Black, LGBTQIA+, female, neurodivergent, and other underrepresented researchers, they create a more welcoming scientific community, which will encourage more individuals in minority groups to become scientists.

Proceedings of the Second International Conference …

The contribution that e-Sciences make towards communicating and collaborating via networks will take many different forms, but it is argued here that the overall effect of these new tools will be to reshape the contours of scientific knowledge, creating a new divide between the visibility of online and offline knowledge. This divide points to the contribution that e-Sciences make towards the increasing globalization of scientific knowledge. Online scientific knowledge will also allow a more effective mapping of knowledge within different domains. This paper will locate e-Sciences within the broader intellectual and social organization of scientific knowledge.

Physics Reports

The science of science (SOS) is a rapidly developing field which aims to understand, quantify and predict scientific research and the resulting outcomes. The problem is essentially related to almost all scientific disciplines and thus has attracted attention of scholars from different backgrounds. Progress on SOS will lead to better solutions for many challenging issues, ranging from the selection of candidate faculty members by a university to the development of research fields to which a country should give priority. While different measurements have been designed to evaluate the scientific impact of scholars, journals and academic institutions, the multiplex structure, dynamics and evolution mechanisms of the whole system have been much less studied until recently. In this article, we review the recent advances in SOS, aiming to cover the topics from empirical study, network analysis, mechanistic models, ranking, prediction, and many important related issues. The results summarized in this review significantly deepen our understanding of the underlying mechanisms and statistical rules governing the science system. Finally, we review the forefront of SOS research and point out the specific difficulties as they arise from different contexts, so as to stimulate further efforts in this emerging interdisciplinary field.

2013