<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">Physics students in Brazil do not read much about philosophy. They should read more :-). I remember I thought that the physical universe was entirely explained by mathematics. I found out later, for example, a huge number of mathematically possible universes. Then, I was then presented to the anthropic principle. The fact is that physicists has a tendency to believe only on what can be proven experimentally. I believe that it is not only a characteristic of Physics.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In the case of Information Science, Bibliometrics have given an important part of its experimental proofs. The tool Loet presented in the 1st post is so simple to use that I decided to make a test. I searched the Web of Science for the word "information" in Titles of Scientific Articles and overlay this search on maps of of science (10 in 10 years). The results are:</div><div class="gmail_extra">Video with images generated by VOSviwer: <a href="http://youtu.be/RWo4BL5pSds">http://youtu.be/RWo4BL5pSds</a></div><div class="gmail_extra">Video with images generated by Pajek: <a href="http://youtu.be/ivCYqg3VW4M">http://youtu.be/ivCYqg3VW4M</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My idea is to map a particular discipline on the four great domains: Physical, Life, Social and Informational.</div><div class="gmail_extra">Any suggestion?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Moisés André Nisenbaum<br>Doutorando IBICT/UFRJ. Professor. Msc.<br>Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro - IFRJ<br>Campus Maracanã<br><a href="mailto:moises.nisenbaum@ifrj.edu.br" target="_blank">moises.nisenbaum@ifrj.edu.br</a></div></div></div></div>
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