Map of Science

Science mapping, at its most basic, is a combination of classification and visualization.

This map represents the relationships among and between 22 million documents – 20 million scientific and technical articles, and 2 million patents from 1996-2011.

It was created by clustering the documents using a combination of citation analysis and text mining.

This map portrays the structure and dynamics of science and technology at a highly detailed level, with over 200,000 clusters of documents, each of which may last anywhere from two to sixteen years.

VOSviewer is commercial software that offers much the same potential.

SciTopia is a science project (originally proposed to the Welcome Trust in 2012), that looks to create a new form of Scientific Institution, based on an analysis of the activities and practice of real world science.

The project aims to create a new Open Science platform, built on top of the Map of Science, and aligned with the values of the Science Commons Project.