Autor segons l'article: De Domenico M; Omodei E; Arenas A
Departament: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
Autor/s de la URV: Arenas Moreno, Alejandro / DE DOMENICO, MANLIO
Paraules clau: Interconnected networks Human knowledge Diffusion Complex networks Big data human knowledge diffusion complex networks big data
Resum: © 2016, The Author(s). Academic research is driven by several factors causing different disciplines to act as “sources” or “sinks” of knowledge. However, how the flow of authors’ research interests – a proxy of human knowledge – evolved across time is still poorly understood. Here, we build a comprehensive map of such flows across one century, revealing fundamental periods in the raise of interest in areas of human knowledge. We identify and quantify the most attractive topics over time, when a relatively significant number of researchers moved from their original area to another one, causing what we call a “diaspora of the knowledge” towards sinks of scientific interest, and we relate these points to crucial historical and political events. Noticeably, only a few areas – like Medicine, Physics or Chemistry – mainly act as sources of the diaspora, whereas areas like Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Neuroscience, Immunology and Microbiology or Environmental Science behave like sinks.
Àrees temàtiques: Multidisciplinary sciences Multidisciplinary Computer science, theory & methods Computer networks and communications Computational mathematics
Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Adreça de correu electrònic de l'autor: alexandre.arenas@urv.cat
Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0003-0937-0334
Data d'alta del registre: 2024-09-28
Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Referència a l'article segons font original: Applied Network Science. 1 (1): 15-
Referència de l'ítem segons les normes APA: De Domenico M; Omodei E; Arenas A (2016). Quantifying the diaspora of knowledge in the last century. Applied Network Science, 1(1), 15-. DOI: 10.1007/s41109-016-0017-9
URL Document de llicència: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Any de publicació de la revista: 2016
Tipus de publicació: Journal Publications
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