Disciplinary Diffusion of Information

Peter Hook, Information Science, Indiana University

Prior work in bibliometrics/scientometrics, condensed matter physics, and the merging field of network science has mainly focused on the analysis of structure of science and scientific collaboration networks.

This talk will present different approaches to map not only the structure but also the dynamics of all of sciences. In particular, we are interested to identify the diffusion of materialistic (objects, people, etc.) and non-materialistic (ideas, fitness, etc.) over space and time.

The talk is partially based on material published in:

  1. Boyack, Kevin W., Klavans, R. and Börner, Katy. (in press). Mapping the Backbone of Science. Scientometrics. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/paper/05-backbone.pdf
  2. Börner, Katy, Dall’Asta, Luca, Ke, Weimao and Vespignani, Alessandro. (in press) Studying the Emerging Global Brain: Analyzing and Visualizing the Impact of Co-Authorship Teams. Complexity, special issue on Understanding Complex Systems. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/paper/05-globalbrain.pdf
  3. Börner, Katy & Penumarthy, Shashikant. (in press) Spatio- Temporal Information Production and Consumption of Major U.S. Research Institutions. Accepted at the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Stockholm, Sweden, July 24- 28. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/%7Ekaty/paper/05-issi-diffusion.pdf