Seed magazine printed a Map of science that opened the 2006 Gallery in Nature. The map was made in collaboration by Kevin Boyack, Dick Klavans and Information Esthetics (i|e) founder W. Bradford Paley, and it is now sold out but you can still find the pdf file on i|e. In Nature there was written:
“We begin with all of science all at once, in this conceptual map of 800,000 published papers. The red circles are nodes of papers that cite one another. They are named with a string of phrases that relate to their fields, and are connected with lines of various heaviness and length, depending on the cross-linkages. Pure chemistry is at the end of the right-hand peninsula. Medicine is located roughly at the lower left, and physics is at the top.”
The colour scheme was altered in the second-generation map that is still to be found on i|e (as shown above).
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