2010/05/29 by Loet Leydesdorff, Leydesdorff, Loet · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Data Visualization and Analytics #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction #Philosophy, History, and Historiography #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #cs.DL #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1005.5444
arxiv created 2010/05/29 · openalex publication_date 2010/05/29 · arxiv updated 2010/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Algorithmic historiography was proposed by Eugene Garfield in collaboration with Irving Sher in the 1960s, but further developed only recently into HistCiteTM with Alexander Pudovkin. As in history writing, HistCiteTM reconstructs by drawing intellectual lineages. In addition to cited references, however, documents can be attributed a multitude of other variables such as title words, keywords, journal names, author names, and even full texts. New developments in multidimensional scaling (MDS) enable us not only to visualize these patterns at each moment of time, but also to animate them over time. Using title words, co-authors, and journal names in Garfield's oeuvre, the method is demonstrated and further developed in this paper (and in the animation at http://www.leydesdorff.net/garfield/animation). The variety and substantive content of the animation enables us to write, visualize, and animate the author's intellectual history.