Today I stumbled upon this amazing work by Kevin Boyack, Dick Klavans and Bradford Paley. Those of you who know me also know that I love maps. Even though I have to admit that they may sometimes be more confusing than clarifying. As I am used to deal with paradigms, theories, papers and authors I really like this work. For others who don’t it might be only a beautiful picture without any meaning, and for some a piece of art. The image considers merely quantitative relations. Even though, a high power of connectivity says a lot about the currents of scientific discourses.
 

The "Map of Science" is constructed by
sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers (shown as white dots) into
776 different scientific paradigms (red circular nodes) based on how
often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links
(curved lines) were made between the paradigms that shared common
members, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer
one another when a physical simulation had every paradigm repel every
other: thus the layout derives directly from the data. Larger paradigms
have more papers. Labels list common words unique to each paradigm.