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Tracking Latent Domain Knowledge

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Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization

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Conventional citation analysis typically focuses on distinctive members of a specialty — the cream of the crop. Landscape visualizations naturally emphasize the peaks rather than the valleys. Such practices remind us of either the Matthew Effect or the winner-takes-it-all phenomenon. However, scientific frontiers are constantly changing. We cannot simply ignore the “root” of the crop or the valleys of an intellectual landscape. Today’s valleys may become tomorrow’s peaks.

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

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    Chaomei Chen PhD, MSc, BSc

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Chen, C. (2003). Tracking Latent Domain Knowledge. In: Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0051-5_7

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