If you didn’t believe that science was a international collaborative sport then this should persuade you otherwise. These amazing images show the links between science publications, in the same way that Facebook mapped their friend data a couple of months ago. These were produced by Olivier Beauchesne and Science-Metrix. Click on the images below to see in high res:
Global science collaboration
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Great stuff. It reminded me of this visualisation I found of the citations between various scientific journals –
http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/radial.html>http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/radial.html
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