113 Years of Physical Review
Bruce W. Herr II and Russell Duhon are senior software developers at the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University. They develop infrastructures to analyze, model, and map large-scale scholarly datasets such as the 113-year Physical Review dataset shown here.
Description of Unique Features:
Each year, Thomson Scientific predicts three Nobel Prize awardees in physics based on citation counts, high impact papers, and discoveries or themes worthy of special recognition. The small Nobel Prize medals indicate all Nobel prize-winning papers, and all correct predictions by Thomson Scientific are highlighted.
Data Used:
The visualization aggregates 389,899 articles published in 720 volumes of 11 journals between 1893 and 2005. The 91,762 articles published from 1893 to 1976 take up the left third on the map. In 1977, the Physical Review introduced the Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) codes, and the visualization subdivides into the top-level PACS codes. The 217,503 articles from 1977 to 2000, for which partial citation data is available, occupy the middle third on the map. The 80,634 articles from 2001 to 2005, for which complete citation data is available, fill the last third of the map. On top of this base map, all citations from the papers in every top-level PACS code in 2005 are overlaid.
Herr II, Bruce W., Russell Jackson Duhon (Data Mining & Visualization), Elisha F. Hardy (Graphic Design), Penumarthy (Data Preparation) Shashikant, Katy Börner (Concept). 2007. 113 Years of Physical Review. Bloomington, IN. Courtesy of Indiana University. In Katy Börner & Julie M. Davis (Eds.), 3rd Iteration (2007): The Power of Forecasts, Places and Spaces: Mapping Science.
