Citation networks have long been known as useful tools of representation and data analysis in scientometric research.  A team of scholars coming from biology and physics have now set out to build a suite of citation mapping and recommendation services for everyday use.

Read the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain

On a related note: check out VOSviewer, one existing software for analysis & visualization of bibliometric networks. As of last week, the new version 1.4 is out, offering bug fixes and better support for Pajek files.

Mark Newman is a physics professor at the University of Michigan and the author of a comprehensive textbook on network analysis (Networks: An Introduction, 784 pages) He has studied networks in fields ranging from sociology and economics to computer science and biology. In 2010,  he gave three talks on network analysis as part of the Santa Fe Institute‘s 2010 Ulam Lecture series.

We recommend all three for people interested in finding more about relational thinking and network structures.

2010 Ulam Lecture – The Connected World

2010 Ulam Lecture – What Networks Can Tell Us about the World

2010 Ulam Lecture – Using Networks to Make Predictions