Summary: | Examining the history and developments in the quest for knowledge visualization from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book presents the following features: simple diagrams for modeling and visualization procedures, interdisciplinary perspectives, involving bibliometrics, cartography, information visualization, and philosophy of science, real-world examples of co-word analysis, co-citation analysis, and patent citation analysis, detailed case studies of visualizing scientific paradigms, including the mass extinction debates, the active galactic nuclei paradigm and mad cow disease.
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