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| Title |
Phylomemetic Patterns in Science Evolution—The Rise and Fall of Scientific Fields
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0054847 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
David Chavalarias, Jean-Philippe Cointet |
| Abstract |
We introduce an automated method for the bottom-up reconstruction of the cognitive evolution of science, based on big-data issued from digital libraries, and modeled as lineage relationships between scientific fields. We refer to these dynamic structures as phylomemetic networks or phylomemies, by analogy with biological evolution; and we show that they exhibit strong regularities, with clearly identifiable phylomemetic patterns. Some structural properties of the scientific fields - in particular their density -, which are defined independently of the phylomemy reconstruction, are clearly correlated with their status and their fate in the phylomemy (like their age or their short term survival). Within the framework of a quantitative epistemology, this approach raises the question of predictibility for science evolution, and sketches a prototypical life cycle of the scientific fields: an increase of their cohesion after their emergence, the renewal of their conceptual background through branching or merging events, before decaying when their density is getting too low. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 40 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 9 | 23% |
| United States | 6 | 15% |
| Canada | 3 | 8% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 8% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 5% |
| Unknown | 11 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 60% |
| Scientists | 15 | 38% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 166 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 7 | 4% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1% |
| Belgium | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Spain | 2 | 1% |
| Taiwan | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 144 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 41 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 8% |
| Professor | 13 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 38 | 23% |
| Unknown | 16 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 28 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 16% |
| Computer Science | 25 | 15% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 5% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 46 | 28% |
| Unknown | 23 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 46. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2021.
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