Mapping and Ranking Scientific Production and Consumption

by Nicola Perra (MoBs Lab, Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA)

Thursday 3 Jul 2014, 11:00 → 13:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi)

Over the last decade, the digitalization of publication datasets has propelled bibliographic studies allowing for the first time access to the geospatial distribution of millions of publications, and citations at different granularities. More precisely, authors' name, affiliations, addresses, and references can be aggregated at different scales, and used to characterize publications and citations patterns of single papers, journals, authors, institutions, cities, or countries. We propose a framework that leveraging on these informations allows to identify the key units, at any given geographical level, in the production and consumption of knowledge and to characterize their ranking as a function of time. The proposed methodology  is general and opens the path to comparative studies of the dynamics of knowledge across disciplines and research areas.