A view from above: The evolving sociological landscape

Moody, James; Light, Ryan

doi:10.1007/s12108-006-1006-8

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“…Similar network approaches to bibliometric studies have been used successfully to characterize the social structure of collaboration in many fields, including sociology (Moody, 2004), physics, biomedical research, and computer science (Newman, 2001a(Newman, , 2001b, and the study of ecosystem services (Costanza & Kubiszewski, 2012). Topical modeling for science-studies is similarly widespread, mapping detailed portraits of particular fields (Moody and Light;2006;Evans and Foster, 2011;Borner, 2010).…”

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“…These routines place papers that have much in common near each other. Since the network representation of such maps are too dense to be substantively useful, we constructed contour maps that reflect the density of papers in each region of the topic space and label these maps with the most frequent terms used in each cluster (Moody and Light, 2006 for this particular technique; Börner 2010, for general approach).…”

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The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration

Borrett

Moody

Edelmann

2014

Ecological Modelling

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Network ecologists investigate the structure, function, and evolution of ecological systems using network models and analyses. For example, network techniques have been used to study community interactions (i.e., food-webs, mutualisms), gene flow across landscapes, and the sociality of individuals in populations. The work presented here uses a bibliographic and network approach to (1) document the rise of Network Ecology, (2) identify the diversity of topics addressed in the field, and (3) map the structure of scientific collaboration among contributing scientists. Our aim is to provide a broad overview of this emergent field that highlights its diversity and to provide a foundation for future advances. To do this, we searched the ISI Web of Science database for ecology publications between 1900 and 2012 using the search terms for research areas of Environmental Sciences & Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the topic tag ecology. From these records we identified the Network Ecology publications using the topic terms network, graph theory, and web while controlling for the usage of misleading phrases. The resulting corpus entailed 29,513 publications between 1936 and 2012. We find that Network Ecology spans across more than 1,500 sources with core ecological journals being among the top 20 most frequent outlets. We document the rapid rise in Network Ecology publications per year reaching a magnitude of over 5% of the ecological publications in 2012. Drawing topical information from the publication record content (titles, abstracts, keywords) and collaboration information from author listing, our analysis highlights the diversity and clustering of topics addressed within Network Ecology and reveals the highly collaborative approach of scientists publishing in this field. We conclude that Network Ecology is a large and rapidly growing area of ecology partly because the relational tools it rests upon are broadly useful for ecology, which is fundamentally a relational science. We expect continued growth and development of this research field.

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Section: Topics In Network Ecologymentioning

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The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration

Borrett

Moody

Edelmann

2014

Ecological Modelling

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“…Qualitative studies have considered content of communication in conjunction with citations (Ceccarelli, 2001), but the vast majority of quantitative analyses rely exclusively on citations to map the structure and flow of scientific communication (Rosvall and Bergstrom, 2008). In cases where content is addressed directly, it is viewed as a substitute for citation analysis (Landauer et al, 2004;Gerrish and Blei, 2010), or citation patterns are used to construct a measure of semantic similarity (Moody and Light, 2006), or citations are treated as another type of content (Erosheva et al, 2004). Livne et al (2011) is an important exception, although focused on a distinct literature, that is, social media and politics.…”

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Delivering Impact of Scholarly Information: Is Access Enough?

McGregor¹,

Guthrie²

2015

The Journal of Electronic Publishing

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Divergent interests, expertise, and language form cultural barriers to communication. No formalism has been available to characterize these "cultural holes. " Here we use information theory to measure cultural holes and demonstrate our formalism in the context of scientific communication using papers from JSTOR. We extract scientific fields from the structure of citation flows and infer field-specific cultures by cataloging phrase frequencies in full text and measuring the relative efficiency of between-field communication. We then combine citation and cultural information in a novel topographic map of science, mapping citations to geographic distance and cultural holes to topography. By analyzing the full citation network, we find that communicative efficiency decays with citation distance in a field-specific way. These decay rates reveal hidden patterns of cohesion and fragmentation. For example, the ecological sciences are balkanized by jargon, whereas the social sciences are relatively integrated. Our results highlight the importance of enriching structural analyses with cultural data.

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“…Keith and Ender's (2004) analysis of 16 plus 19 sociological textbooks from 1940 and 1990, respectively, came across six out of -we reckon (Roth, 2014b) -ten function systems, namely education, politics, religion, the economy, health, and science, as core concepts of sociology. A view on the landscape of English-language articles indexed by sociological abstracts between 1970 and 1999 (Moody and Light, 2006) also shows that art, health, science, education, and the legal system play a major role in sociological discourses. Still, the function systems are clearly not as popular as the more classical categories, a statement which is also supported by a JSTOR full-text search of common sociological terms (David, 2005).…”

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Booties, bounties, business models: a map to the next red oceans

Roth

2014

IJESB

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This quest is for pirate maps to blue oceans. The key problem involved is that blue oceans turn red whenever these maps make their way from pirates to mainstream entrepreneurs. Pirates therefore have an essential need for maps to the next blue oceans. In drawing on form theory, this article develops a map sheet, on which it appears that, throughout history, pirates navigated social borders. An analysis of the gaps in past and present maps of social differentiation then allows for the discovery of a largely uncharted quadrant of the blue ocean for entrepreneurship and entrepreneuring.

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A view from above: The evolving sociological landscape

Cited by 88 publications

References 25 publications

The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration

The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration

Delivering Impact of Scholarly Information: Is Access Enough?

Booties, bounties, business models: a map to the next red oceans

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