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A general framework for creating large-scale maps of science in two or three dimensions: The SciViz system

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Data visualization techniques have opened up new possibilities for science mapping. To exploit this opportunity new methods are needed to position tens of thousands of documents in a single coordinate space. A general framework is described for achieving this goal involving hierarchical clustering, ordination of clusters, and the merging of ordinations into a common coordinate space. The SciViz system is presented as one particular implementation of this framework.

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Small, H. A general framework for creating large-scale maps of science in two or three dimensions: The SciViz system. Scientometrics 41, 125–133 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02457973

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