Paper Info
Title
Distributed scientific communication in the European information society: Some cases of "Mode 2" fields of research
Abstract
Can self-organization of scientific communication be specified by using literature-based indicators? In this study, we explore this question by applying entropy measures to typical "Mode- 2" fields of knowledge production. We hypothesized these scientific systems to be developing from a self-organization of the interaction between cognitive and institutional levels: European subsidized research programs aim at creating an institutional network, while a cognitive reorganization is continuously ongoing at the scientific field level. The results indicate that the European system develops towards a stable level of distribution of cited references and title- words among the European member states. We suggested that this distribution could be a property of the emerging European system. In order to measure to degree of specialization with respect to the respective distributions of countries, cited references and title words, the mutual information among the three frequency distributions was calculated. The so-called transmission values informed us that the European system shows increasing levels of differentiation.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
mutual information,self organization
Field
DocType
Volume
Subsidy,Data mining,Frequency distribution,Computer science,Scientific communication,Mutual information,Mode 2,Information society,Cognition
Journal
abs/1001.1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
Paper presented at Science & Technology Indicators Conference, Leiden, May 2000
1
0.36
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
gaston heimeriks112510.26
Loet Leydesdorff24987381.86
Peter Van den Besselaar361986.09