Abstract

this article, we focus on the use of a particular approach to visualizing and tracking the growth of scientific paradigms. We illustrate the potential of this approach with two case studies. The first case study investigates the role of information visualization in tracking the growth of the study of mass extinctions. The second case study tracks down the line of research concerning whether there is a connection between mad cow disease and new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). The rest of the article is organized as follows: we first provide a brief introduction to the key concepts and principles. Then we explain how our approach works and what types of structural and visual properties we should look for in the case studies. We describe two case studies in detail. We finally reflect on our experience with these case studies in the broader context of knowledge tracking and technology monitoring

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