1. DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO
Data Archiving and Networked ServicesData Archiving and Networked Services
Mapping social sciences and
humanities – Impact,
Orientation, Understanding
Andrea Scharnhorst
June 23, 2014
ESOF2014 Mapping Social Sciences and Humanities Session

2. Andrea Scharnhorst – “science located”
•Head of Research&Innovation at DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services
Institute
•Scientific coordinator of the Computational Humanities programme at the eHumanities
group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
20012000 2010
@scharnhorsta
ResearchGate; Mendeley;
Academics.edu; LinkedIn
www.knowescape.org

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scimaps.org – Katy Borner – Map maker: Klavans/Boyack

4. Clickstream data
map of science –
Bollen, Van
Sompel, et al.
www.mesur.org
‘Reading
behavior’

6. Frank van der Most ACUMEN
Hellsten et al. (2007) Self-citations Scientometrics
Han-Teng Liao, Oxford Internet Institute

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Almila Akdag Sahal, Cheng Gao, Krzysztof Suckecki, Andrea Scharnhorst;
Places and Spaces, 7th
Iteration, see http://www.scimaps.org/flat/exhibit_info/#7

8. ANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OFANALYZING THE DYNAMICS OF
INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGEINFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
Browse a collection
or a database
Map size, structure, composition
and evolution of the collection
Locate your search on such an
interactive knowledge map
• Domain overview for students, interdisciplinary
teams, lay experts and funding agencies
• Tools for scholars of history and philosophy of
science and bibliometrics
• Overview of BigData collections (incl. social media)
Given the explosion of information how to navigate
to find what is needed?

9. Informa on Professionals/
Informa on Scien sts
Social Scien sts
Computer Scien sts
Physics/Mathema cs
Digital Humani es
Information professionals
•Collections, Information retrieval
•WG 1 Phenomenology of knowledge spaces
• WG 4 Data curation & navigation
Social scientists
•Simulating user behavior
•WG 2 Theory of knowledge
spaces
•WG 4 Data curation & navigation
Computer scientists
•Semantic web, data models
•WG 1 Phenomenology of Knowledge Spaces
•WG 4 Data curation &navigation
Physicists, mathematicians
Digital humanities scholars
•Collections, interactive design
•WG 3 Visual analytics – knowledge maps
•WG 4 Data curation & navigation
Participating communitiesParticipating communities
• Structure & evolution of
complex knowledge
spaces, big data mining
• WG 2 Theory of
knowledge spaces
• WG 3 Visual analytics –
knowledge maps

10. References
• Borner, K. (2010). Atlas of Science. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press.
• Borner, K., Klavans, R., Patek, M., Zoss, A. M.,
Biberstine, J. R., Light, R. P., … Boyack, K. W. (2012).
Design and update of a classification system: The ucsd
map of science. PLoS ONE, 7.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039464
• Boyack, K. W., & Klavans, R. (2014). Including cited
non-source items in a large-scale map of science:
What difference does it make? Journal of Informetrics,
8(3), 569–580. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2014.04.001
• Börner, K., & Scharnhorst, A. (2009). Visual
conceptualizations and models of science. Editorial.
Special issue “Science of Science: Conceptualizations
and Models of Science.” Journal of Informetrics, 3(3),
161–172. doi:10.1016/j.joi.2009.03.008
• Leydesdorff, L., Rafols, I., & Chen, C. (2013).
Interactive Overlays of Journals and the Measurement
of Interdisciplinarity on the basis of Aggregated
Journal-Journal Citations. Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology,
64(12), 2573–2586. Digital Libraries.
doi:10.1002/asi.22946
• Bar-Ilan, J. (2014). Evaluating the individual
researcher – adding an altmetric perspective.
Research Trends, (37), 31–32.
• MORE
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1581483/knowesca
pe-the-dynamics-of-information-and-knowledge-
landscapes/
• Sci2 tool
https://sci2.cns.iu.edu/
• http://www.vosviewer.com
/
• http://www.citnetexplorer.
nl/Home
• ManyEyes
http://www.manyeyes.com
/software/analytics/manye
yes/
• Data Driven Documents
http://d3js.org/