2011/08/25 by Olle Persson, Kajsa Ellegård · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Decision Sciences · Computer Science · Mathematics · #Species Distribution and Climate Change #scientometrics and bibliometrics research #Data Visualization and Analytics #Citation #Dimension (graph theory) #Field (mathematics) #Web of science #Space (punctuation) #Data science #Computer science #Co-citation #Spacetime #Information retrieval #Geography #World Wide Web #Mathematics #Political science #Combinatorics
paper · doi:10.1080/00330124.2011.601187
openalex publication_date 2011/08/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Time and space are fundamental to science dynamics, as science concerns not only what but also where and when. We examine the application of a time-geographical approach in a study of articles citing the works of Torsten Hägerstrand. Citation links between these articles were identified and the links were assigned weights based on shared references and cocitations. The main result is that adding a space–time dimension to traditional bibliometric mapping yields new insight into the dynamics of a research field. It became obvious that change in research is both cognitive and spatial; that is, science changes when it moves.