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Atlas of Science: January 2010

This document provides an overview of mapping science research conducted by Katy Börner. It describes 10 iterations of a "Mapping Science" exhibit shown over 10 years to visualize scholarly activity and science trends. The exhibit has been displayed in over 70 venues internationally. The document also lists related projects in computational scientometrics and cyberinfrastructures led by Börner to develop tools and networks for mapping and analyzing large scholarly datasets.
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Atlas of Science: January 2010

This document provides an overview of mapping science research conducted by Katy Börner. It describes 10 iterations of a "Mapping Science" exhibit shown over 10 years to visualize scholarly activity and science trends. The exhibit has been displayed in over 70 venues internationally. The document also lists related projects in computational scientometrics and cyberinfrastructures led by Börner to develop tools and networks for mapping and analyzing large scholarly datasets.
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Atlas of Science
Katy Börner
CNS, SLIS, IU, Bloomington, IN
[email protected] | http://cns.iu.edu

All School Day


University of North Texas, Denton ,TX
October 1, 2011


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Early Maps of the World VERSUS Early Maps of Science

3D n-D
Physically-based Abstract space
Accuracy is measurable Accuracy is difficult
Trade-offs have more to do with granularity Trade-offs indirectly affect accuracy
2-D projections are very accurate at local levels 2-D projections neglect a great deal of data
Centuries of experience Decades of experience
Geo-maps can be a template for other data Science maps can be a template for other data

Kevin W. Boyack, UCGIS Summer Meeting, June, 2009


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Find your way

Black
Box

Find collaborators, friends


Take terra bytes of data

Identify trends 4
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2005 World Population
The population map uses a quarter degree box resolution. Boxes with zero people are given in white. Darker
shades of red indicate higher population counts per box using a logarithmic interpolation. The highest density
boxes appear in Mumbai, with 11,687,850 people in the quarter degree block, Calcutta (10,816,010), and
Shanghai (8,628,088).

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2007 IP Address Ownership


This map shows IP address ownership by location. Each owner is represented by a circle and the area size of the
circle corresponds to the number of IP addresses owned. The larges circle denotes MIT’s holdings of an entire
class A subnet, which equates to 16,581,375 IP addresses. The countries that own the most IP addresses are US
(560 million), Japan (130 million), Great Britain (47 million).

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2003 Scientific Productivity
Shown is where science is performed today. Each circle indicates a geographic location at which scholarly papers
are published. The larger the circle the more papers are produced. Boston, MA, London, England, and New
York, NY are the top three paper production areas. Note the strong resemblance with the Night on Earth and
the IP Ownership maps and the striking differences to the world population map.

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2000 Night on Earth


This image shows city lights at night. It was composed from hundreds of pictures made by orbiting satellites.
The seaboards of Europe, the eastern United States, and Japan are particularly well lit. Many cities exist near
rivers or oceans so that goods can be exchanged cheaply by boat. The central parts of South America, Africa,
Asia, and Australia are rather dark despite their high population density, see map to the left.

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In 1870, Captain George Everest embarked to map India by triangulation. For generations, a vast network of
repeating sightline triangles was meticulously measured and recorded (see map below). What resembles a pattern of
eyelashes on the northern border represents the sightlines to stations built above treetops. While analyzing the triangles in
the calculating offices of Calcutta, the mapmakers discovered the highest peak in the world: Mount Everest
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Legal Citation Index, 1873 Citation Indexes for Science, 1955 Google, 1998
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Illuminated Diagram Display


W. Bradford Paley, Kevin W. Boyack, Richard Kalvans, and Katy Börner (2007)
Mapping, Illuminating, and Interacting with Science. SIGGRAPH 2007.

Questions:
Large-scale, high
 Who is doing research on what topic
resolution prints
and where?
illuminated via projector
 What is the ‘footprint’ of or screen.
interdisciplinary research fields?
 What impact have scientists?
Interactive touch panel.
Contributions:
 Interactive, high resolution interface
to access and make sense of data
about scholarly activity.

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Science Maps in “Expedition Zukunft” science train visiting 62 cities in 7 months 12 coaches, 300 m long
Opening was on April 23rd, 2009 by German Chancellor Merkel
http://www.expedition-zukunft.de
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Science Puzzle Map for Kids by Fileve Palmer, Julie Smith, Elisha Hardy and Katy Börner, Indiana University, 2006.
(Base map taken from Illuminated Diagram display by Kevin Boyack, Richard Klavans, and W. Bradford Paley.) 52
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Activities:
Solve the puzzle.
Navigate to ‘Earth Science’.
Identify major inventions.
Place major inventors.
Find your dream job on the map.
Why is mathematics important?
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Mapping Science Exhibit – 10 Iterations in 10 years


http://scimaps.org/

The Power of Maps (2005) Science Maps for Economic Decision Makers (2008)

The Power of Reference Systems (2006) Science Maps for Science Policy Makers (2009)

The Power of Forecasts (2007) Science Maps for Scholars (2010)


Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries (2011)
Science Maps for Kids (2012)
Science Forecasts (2013)
How to Lie with Science Maps (2014)

Exhibit has been shown in 72 venues on four continents. Currently at


- NSF, 10th Floor, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
- Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn, Germany
- Science Train, Germany
- Cultural Dimensions of Innovation, UCD Conference, Dublin, Ireland

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Debut of 5th Iteration of Mapping Science Exhibit at MEDIA X was on May 18, 2009 at Wallenberg Hall,
Stanford University, http://mediax.stanford.edu, http://scaleindependentthought.typepad.com/photos/scimaps

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We would like to thank the map makers


Computational Scientometrics
Cyberinfrastructures

Scholarly Database: 25 million scholarly records


http://sdb.slis.indiana.edu

VIVO Research Networking


http://vivoweb.org

Information Visualization Cyberinfrastructure


http://iv.cns.iu.edu

Network Workbench Tool & Community Wiki


http://nwb.cns.iu.edu

Science of Science (Sci2) Tool


http://sci2.cns.iu.edu

Epidemics Tool & Marketplace


Forthcoming
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References
Börner, Katy, Chen, Chaomei, and Boyack, Kevin. (2003).
Visualizing Knowledge Domains. In Blaise Cronin
(Ed.), ARIST, Medford, NJ: Information Today, Volume
37, Chapter 5, pp. 179-255.
http://ivl.slis.indiana.edu/km/pub/2003-borner-arist.pdf

Shiffrin, Richard M. and Börner, Katy (Eds.) (2004).


Mapping Knowledge Domains. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
101(Suppl_1).
http://www.pnas.org/content/vol101/suppl_1/

Börner, Katy, Sanyal, Soma and Vespignani, Alessandro


(2007). Network Science. In Blaise Cronin (Ed.), ARIST,
Information Today, Inc., Volume 41, Chapter 12, pp. 537-
607.
http://ivl.slis.indiana.edu/km/pub/2007-borner-arist.pdf

Börner, Katy (2010) Atlas of Science. MIT Press.


http://scimaps.org/atlas

Scharnhorst, Andrea, Börner, Katy, van den Besselaar,


Peter (2011) Models of Science Dynamics. Springer
Verlag.

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All papers, maps, tools, talks, press are linked from http://cns.iu.edu

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Mapping Science Exhibit Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mappingscience

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