Communication
A picture is worth a thousand words! You can use various visualizations to convey your message. For instance, you can include state-of-the-art figures in your presentations, you can add the annual distribution of publications to your papers, or you can add a list of top authors or top institutions to your internal reports.
Before communicating your analysis results, please pay attention to the following caveats.
- Data coverage is never perfect. Be careful with the biases introduced during data collection phase.
- Maps are result of projecting data into 2 or 3 dimensions. Thus, the real distance between elements might be different from what you see in visualizations.
Presentations
The software tools introduced for Data Analysis can generate various maps for you. You can easily add these maps to your slides: Term Maps, Co-authorship Maps, Citation Maps, Bibliographic Coupling Maps, Co-citation Maps.
Papers
The visualizations that you can add to your manuscript varies based on type of paper youβre writing and the journal or conference youβre submitting to. As a source of inspiration use the examples listed below.
Annual Distribution of Publications β See Figure 1 in βWhat is an emerging technology?β
Basic Statistics β See figures and tables in βState of the art in simulation-based optimisation for maintenance systemsβ
Word Clouds β check this interesting comment on βThe evolution of Biomaterials Researchβ
Term Map (disciplinary composition) β See Figures 1 and 2 in βGlobal maps of science based on the new Web-of-Science categoriesβ
Co-authorship Maps (Country Level)- See Figure 3 in βInternational Collaboration in Science: The Global Map and the Networkβ