[Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL?

[Ken Herold]

Dino, the extension of bibliographic and bibliometric study pertains to all
fields by definition.  Many more graphs and concept maps exist and I
believe no one is ever actually deciding that non-displayed topics are of a
particular character or status permanently with respect to what is
illustrated, unless otherwise explicitly stated.   Ken

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Dino Buzzetti <dino.buzzetti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And what about history, philosophy, philology and so on ?  aren't they
> sciences at all ?  what's the epistemological ground of your
> "classification"
> of sciences ?  isn't the absence of maths in the map a problem at all ?
> aren't
> biology, physics, computer science, and other natural sciences, mentioned
> in philosophy of science, history of science and so on ?  is the history
> of
> science an historian's or a natural scientist's business ?  do natural
> scientists
> care about it at all ?  or isn't it anybody's concern the extension of
> bibliometric
> criteria to the evaluation of research in the domains of history,
> philosophy,
> and so on ?
> Best,               -dino buzzetti
>
>
> On 15 May 2015 at 10:25, Loet Leydesdorff <loet at leydesdorff.net> wrote:
>
>> Dear Soren,
>>
>>
>>
>> We formulated at p. 591 of: Loet Leydesdorff, Stephen Carley, and Ismael
>> Rafols, Global Maps of Science based on the new Web-of-Science
>> Categories, <http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1202/1202.1914.pdf>
>> *Scientometrics* 94(2) (2013) 589-593; <open access
>> <http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-012-0784-8>>  [
>> software <http://www.leydesdorff.net/overlaytoolkit/>], as follows:
>>
>>
>>
>> “The organization into these four groups (biomedical, physical,
>> environmental, and social sciences) is now provided as another (optional)
>> partition within the Pajek (.paj) file containing the base map, and is also
>> made available as input to VOSviewer.”
>>
>>
>>
>> The partitioning into four and six domains was generated by my
>> co-authors. I prefer to use the 19 disciplines on the basis of factor
>> analysis of the matrix. However, one can ask for a four-factor solution,
>> and then one is free to designate the factors.
>>
>>
>>
>> In the figure below, I overlaid Pedro’s 23 publications included in WoS
>> in terms of these four major domains. Making such portfolio overlays is the
>> main purpose of the technique.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The nodes are sized with the log(n+1); n is the number of publications.
>> (The “+1” prevents single publications from disappearing.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Loet
>>
>>
>>
>> PS. This is my second mailing during this week. L.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Loet Leydesdorff
>>
>> *Emeritus* University of Amsterdam
>> Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
>>
>> loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/
>> Honorary Professor, SPRU, <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/>University of
>> Sussex;
>>
>> Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ. <http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/>,
>> Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC,
>> <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html>Beijing;
>>
>> Visiting Professor, Birkbeck <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/>, University of
>> London;
>>
>> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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