Timeline of 60 years of anthrax research literature
- 2005
- Domain
- Exhibit map
This timeline map of anthrax research by electrical engineer Steven A. Morris uses as raw data a list of relevant research papers and the references they cite. Papers that share many references are assumed to be similar as they appear to draw from the same base knowledge. Similar papers are clustered into groups utilizing the statistical technique of agglomerative hierarchical clustering. Groups of related journal papers are plotted in horizontal tracks by publication date. A clustering tree on the left shows the structure of the topics, with the topic labels appearing on the right. Important events, measured by the number of times a paper has been cited, are indicated on the plot. Note the emergence of new topics at the bottom; this documents the research community’s response to the anthrax postal bioterror attacks in late 2001.
Morris, Steven A., and Kevin W. Boyack. 2005. “Visualizing 60 Years of Anthrax Research.” In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, edited by Peter Ingwersen and Birger Larsen, 45-55. Stockholm: Karolinska University Press.
Morris, Steven A. 2005. Visualizing 60 Years of Anthrax Research. Courtesy of Steven A. Morris, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. In “1st Iteration (2005): The Power of Maps” Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by Katy Börner and
Deborah MacPherson. http://scimaps.org.
