Visualizing network for scientific research
http://www.infotoday.com/online/may12/Belter-Visualizing-Networks-of-Scientific-Research.shtml
Due to challenging financial times and such as the present and rising costs of scientific research, it becomes absolutely critical for researchers and scientists to compete for a limited number of research grants. One of the ways to compete effectively for funding is to demonstrate the value of a specific research by external peer review. However, external peer review comes with substantial costs and limited scope, and therefore a new way of bibliometric mapping is developed for this purpose. Bibliometrics is one of the scientific analysis of publications that are able to identify some of the major fields of study across scientific disciplines, publications, research institutions, and researchers. Even bibliometric still has significant limitations, it is still qualified to supplement the peer-review process and demonstrate the value of research.
In bibliometric, there are nodes and edges, where nodes stand for individual members of a group, and edges stand for relationship between two nodes. Therefore, by analyzing coauthoring, collaboration lab groups, and publication network, biblimetric mapping is able to give each node a number that can be used to demonstrate the value of the scientific research.
The bibliometric mapping method mentioned in this article is particularly related to Hubs and Authorities talked in class. In Hubs and Authorities, a page has higher value if it points to more valuable pages than others. The same thing applies here in bibliometric mapping: a lab group gets higher value for their research if they collaborate with authors, scientists, researchers, universities, or organizations that have a high prestige in the field and appear frequently in scientific publication.