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From the reviews: "a ]Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for
Knowledge Visualization is an excellent book and is highly
recommended. The book convincingly outlines general theories
concerning cartography, visual communication, and science mapping -
especially how metaphors can make a big picture simple and useful.
The author likewise shows how the GSA framework is based not only
on technical possibilities but indeed also on the visualization
principles presented in the beginning chapters. Also, the author
does a fine job of explaining why the mapping of scientific
frontiers needs a combined effort from a diverse range of
underlying disciplines, such as philosophy of science, sociology of
science, scientometrics, domain analyses, information
visualization, knowledge discovery, and data mining." Jesper W.
Schneider, Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark, Aalborg Branch Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, 2003 "This book investigates
mapping scientific frontiers from the perspective of visual
thinking and visual exploration (visual communication). a ]
addresses an audience with different disciplinary backgrounds and
tries to stimulate interdisciplinary research. a ] Mapping
Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization is an
excellent book and is highly recommended. The book convincingly
outlines general theories concerning cartography, visual
communication, and science mapping a" especially how metaphors can
make a big picture simple and useful." (Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology a" online, December,
2003) "Some visual tools used by the author to revealshifts in
scientific paradigms, which he calls scientific frontiers, are
discussed in this book. a ] A wealth of color figures of
co-citation maps are contained in the book, which the author uses
to support his conclusions. a ] I recommend this book to anyone
interested in new ways of searching the scientific literature." (P.
Spoerri, Computing Reviews, July, 2003) "Chen completed his first
book a ] when working on a funded research project at Brunei
University. The book being reviewed here has been published
following his move to Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. a ] is
devoted to science mapping and scientific frontiers. a ] This
excellent book, suggesting as it does new methods for studying
science and containing many illustrations in colour, will be of
great interest both to visualisation students and to all those
interested in studying the sociology of science." (Journal of
Documentation, Vol. 59 (3), 2003) "Contributed by an expert in
information science a ] this book can be an important text for
cartographers. A distinguished feature is its colourful maps and
illustrative figures, making it more readable. The book is likely
to appeal to a wide audience from a variety of disciplines,
involving the philosophy of science, information retrieval,
scientometrics, bibliometrics, domain analysis and also information
visualization. The book forms a significant contribution to the
mapping of knowledge domains a ] and to applications involving data
mining using large databases." (Bin Jiang, The Cartographic
Journal, Vol. 42 (2), 2005)
From the reviews: "?Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for
Knowledge Visualization is an excellent book and is highly
recommended. The book convincingly outlines general theories
concerning cartography, visual communication, and science mapping -
especially how metaphors can make a big picture simple and useful.
The author likewise shows how the GSA framework is based not only
on technical possibilities but indeed also on the visualization
principles presented in the beginning chapters. Also, the author
does a fine job of explaining why the mapping of scientific
frontiers needs a combined effort from a diverse range of
underlying disciplines, such as philosophy of science, sociology of
science, scientometrics, domain analyses, information
visualization, knowledge discovery, and data mining." Jesper W.
Schneider, Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark, Aalborg Branch Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, 2003 "This book investigates
mapping scientific frontiers from the perspective of visual
thinking and visual exploration (visual communication). ? addresses
an audience with different disciplinary backgrounds and tries to
stimulate interdisciplinary research. ? Mapping Scientific
Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization is an excellent
book and is highly recommended. The book convincingly outlines
general theories concerning cartography, visual communication, and
science mapping ? especially how metaphors can make a big picture
simple and useful." (Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology ? online, December, 2003) "Some
visual tools used by the author to reveal shifts inscientific
paradigms, which he calls scientific frontiers, are discussed in
this book. ? A wealth of color figures of co-citation maps are
contained in the book, which the author uses to support his
conclusions. ? I recommend this book to anyone interested in new
ways of searching the scientific literature." (P. Spoerri,
Computing Reviews, July, 2003) "Chen completed his first book ?
when working on a funded research project at Brunei University. The
book being reviewed here has been published following his move to
Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. ? is devoted to science
mapping and scientific frontiers. ? This excellent book, suggesting
as it does new methods for studying science and containing many
illustrations in colour, will be of great interest both to
visualisation students and to all those interested in studying the
sociology of science." (Journal of Documentation, Vol. 59 (3),
2003) "Contributed by an expert in information science ? this book
can be an important text for cartographers. A distinguished feature
is its colourful maps and illustrative figures, making it more
readable. The book is likely to appeal to a wide audience from a
variety of disciplines, involving the philosophy of science,
information retrieval, scientometrics, bibliometrics, domain
analysis and also information visualization. The book forms a
significant contribution to the mapping of knowledge domains ? and
to applications involving data mining using large databases." (Bin
Jiang, The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 42 (2), 2005)
From the reviews: "???Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for
Knowledge Visualization is an excellent book and is highly
recommended. The book convincingly outlines general theories
concerning cartography, visual communication, and science mapping -
especially how metaphors can make a big picture simple and useful.
The author likewise shows how the GSA framework is based not only
on technical possibilities but indeed also on the visualization
principles presented in the beginning chapters. Also, the author
does a fine job of explaining why the mapping of scientific
frontiers needs a combined effort from a diverse range of
underlying disciplines, such as philosophy of science, sociology of
science, scientometrics, domain analyses, information
visualization, knowledge discovery, and data mining." Jesper W.
Schneider, Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Denmark, Aalborg Branch Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, 2003 "This book investigates
mapping scientific frontiers from the perspective of visual
thinking and visual exploration (visual communication). ???
addresses an audience with different disciplinary backgrounds and
tries to stimulate interdisciplinary research. ??? Mapping
Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization is an
excellent book and is highly recommended. The book convincingly
outlines general theories concerning cartography, visual
communication, and science mapping ??? especially how metaphors can
make a big picture simple and useful." (Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology ??? online,
December, 2003) "Some visual tools used by the author to
revealshifts in scientific paradigms, which he calls scientific
frontiers, are discussed in this book. ??? A wealth of color
figures of co-citation maps are contained in the book, which the
author uses to support his conclusions. ??? I recommend this book
to anyone interested in new ways of searching the scientific
literature." (P. Spoerri, Computing Reviews, July, 2003) "Chen
completed his first book ??? when working on a funded research
project at Brunei University. The book being reviewed here has been
published following his move to Drexel University, Philadelphia,
USA. ??? is devoted to science mapping and scientific frontiers.
??? This excellent book, suggesting as it does new methods for
studying science and containing many illustrations in colour, will
be of great interest both to visualisation students and to all
those interested in studying the sociology of science." (Journal of
Documentation, Vol. 59 (3), 2003) "Contributed by an expert in
information science ??? this book can be an important text for
cartographers. A distinguished feature is its colourful maps and
illustrative figures, making it more readable. The book is likely
to appeal to a wide audience from a variety of disciplines,
involving the philosophy of science, information retrieval,
scientometrics, bibliometrics, domain analysis and also information
visualization. The book forms a significant contribution to the
mapping of knowledge domains ??? and to applications involving data
mining using large databases." (Bin Jiang, The Cartographic
Journal, Vol. 42 (2), 2005)
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