Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Mapping scientific institutions

  • Published:
Scientometrics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

We have developed a set of routines that allows to draw easily different maps of the research carried out in a scientific institution. Our toolkit uses OpenSource elements to analyze bibliometric data gathered from the Web Of Science. We take the example of our institution, ENS de Lyon, to show how different maps, using co-occurrence (of authors, keywords, institutions…) and bibliographic coupling can be built. These maps may become a valuable tool for discussing institutions’ policies, as they offer different views on the institution at a global scale.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Agarwal, P., & Skupin, A. (Eds.) (2008). Self-organising maps: Applications in geographic information science. Chichester: Wiley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bastian, M., Heymann, S., & Jacomy, M. (2009). Gephi: An open source software for exploring and manipulating networks. Proc 3rd Intl ICWSM Conf.

  • Blondel, V. D., Guillaume, J.-L., Lambiotte, R., & Lefebvre, E. (2008). Fast unfolding of communities in large networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P10008.

  • Börner, K. (2010). Atlas of science: visualizing what we know. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

    Google Scholar 

  • Börner, K., & Scharnhorst, A. (2009). Visual conceptualizations and models of science. Journal of Informetrics, 3, 161–172.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Börner, K., Chen, Ch., & Boyack, K. (2003). Visualizing knowledge domains. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 179–255.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cambrosio, A., Keating, P., Mercier, S., Lewison, G., & Mogoutov, A. (2006). Mapping the emergence and development of translational cancer research. European Journal of Cancer, 42, 3140–3148.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chavalarias, D., & Cointet, J.-P. (2009). The reconstruction of science phylogeny, arXiv:0904.3154v3.

  • Cobo, M. J., López-Herrera, A. G., Herrera-Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2011). Science mapping software tools: Review, analysis, and cooperative study among tools. Journal of the American Society for Information Science Technology, 62, 1382–1402.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Fortunato, S., & Barthélemy, M. (2007). Resolution limit in community detection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of United States of America, 104, 36–41.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Girvan, M., & Newman, M. E. J. (2004). Finding and evaluating community structure in networks. Phys Rev E, 69, 026113.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Glänzel, W. (2003). Bibliometrics as a research field: A course on theory and application of bibliometric indicators. http://nsdl.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/968/1/Bib_Module_KUL.pd.

  • Kessler, M. M. (1963). Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers. American Documentation, 24, 123–131.

    Google Scholar 

  • Klavans, R., & Boyack, K. W. (2009). Toward a consensus map of science. Journal of American Society of Information Science and Technology, 60(3), 455–476.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Leydesdorff, L., & Persson, O. (2010). Mapping the geography of science: Distribution patterns and networks of relations among cities and institutes. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 61(8), 1622–1634.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leydesdorff, L., & Rafols, I. (2009). A global map of science based on the ISI subject categories. Journal of the American Society for Information Science Technology, 60(2), 348–362.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nietzsche, F. (1969). On the genealogy of morals. New York: Vintage Books (cited by Flyvbjerg B, Making social science matter. Cambridge University Press).

  • Noyons, E. C. M. (2004). Science maps within a science policy context. In: H. F. Moed, W. Glanzel, & U. Schmoch (Eds.), Handbook of quantitative science and technology research, the use of publication and patent statistics in studies of ST systems (pp. 237–256). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rafols, I., & Leydesdorff, L. (2010). Science overlay maps: A new tool for research policy and library management. Journal of the American Society for Information Science Technology, 61(9), 1871–1887.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roessner, D (2000). Quantitative and qualitative methods and measures in the evaluation of research. Research Evaluation, 9(2), 125–132.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Small, H. (1973). Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24, 265–269.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Small, H. (1999). Visualizing science by citation mapping. Journal of American Society of Information Science, 50(9), 799–813.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Stirling, A. (2008). “Opening up” and “Closing down”: Power, participation, and pluralism in the social appraisal of technology. Science, Technology and Human Values, 33(2), 262–294.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wood, D., & Fels, J. (2008). The natures of maps: Cartographic constructions of the natural world. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

    Sebastian Grauwin & Pablo Jensen

  2. Institut des Systèmes Complexes Rhône-Alpes (IXXI), Lyon, France

    Sebastian Grauwin & Pablo Jensen

  3. Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and UMR CNRS 5672, 69007, Lyon, France

    Sebastian Grauwin & Pablo Jensen

  4. Laboratoire d’Économie des Transports, Université Lyon 2 and UMR CNRS 5593, 69007, Lyon, France

    Pablo Jensen

Authors
  1. Sebastian Grauwin
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Pablo Jensen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Pablo Jensen.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Grauwin, S., Jensen, P. Mapping scientific institutions. Scientometrics 89, 943–954 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0482-y

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0482-y

Keywords

Search

Navigation