Abstract
This work analyses the area of materials science. Materials science has existed since the earliest civilizations. The development and evolution of societies has been intimately linked to the ability of their members to produce and shape materials to meet their needs. However, materials science has only recently been established as a recognised academic discipline, a consequence of the agglomeration of different areas of science. The citation habits and scientograms associated with this field could therefore be related to the scientific tradition and culture of each country. In this study, the citation networks of six of the most developed countries in the year 2002 were examined using a new technique that graphically represents these networks as scientograms. The technique makes use of cocitation between topic categories of the JCR to generate a network of categories which is graphically represented. The scientograms obtained, which represent the citation networks of each country examined, reflect the cultures of the different nations studied.
Highlights
This work analyses the area of materials science
The citation networks of six of the most developed countries in the year 2002 were examined using a new technique that graphically represents these networks as scientograms
The technique makes use of cocitation between topic categories of the JCR to generate a network of categories which is graphically represented
Summary
La posibilidad de realizar un atlas de la ciencia ha sido algo largamente perseguido. Pero no fue hasta los años 80 cuando este deseo se hizo realidad y se expusieron las ventajas de contar con una herramienta como era el Atlas, en la que se determinaban los trabajos más citados de cada campo temático, se construía una red de relaciones entre estos trabajos, y a partir de estas relaciones, se establecía el comportamiento de los diferentes subcampos. Aunque lo más importante fue la metodología utilizada por los autores anteriormente citados, ya que identificaban perfectamente los grupos de documentos relacionados intelectualmente, mostrando la prueba de que la ciencia es una red de especialidades interconectadas entre sí, algunas exportadoras y otras importadoras de conocimiento [6], que se pueden contemplar utilizando como base el análisis cuantitativo de la producción escrita. De esta forma, se han realizado los Scientogramas de algunos de los países más desarrollados como son Japón, EE.UU., Francia, Inglaterra, Alemania y España, que nos pueden dar una pista de las distintas concepciones existentes en los distintos países
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