Geovisualization of bibliographic data using ArcGIS Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • AbstractThis study examined the geographic aspects of literature involving the visualization of bibliographic data published by authors residing in the contiguous United States. ArcGIS was used to visualize networks of citedciting publications and coauthors for 102 publications based on first author institutional affiliation. Spatial statistics and other tools within ArcGIS were used to explore the clustering of research activity and test the death of distance hypothesis among coauthors. Both the producers and consumers of the scholarly output were found to be clustered. Visual inspection of the thematic maps found research activity concentrated in the following cities: Bloomington, IN, Philadelphia, PA, Sandia, NM, Stillwater, OK, and Tucson, AZ. Over half of the coauthorship (60%) occurred among authors within the same ZIP code. The citedciting publication network and coauthor network maps shared a characteristic pattern indicating that many producers and consumers also coauthored with each other. While the number of coauthored publications in the field of visualization of bibliographic data increased from 19952009, the average coauthor distance remained unchanged over that period.

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

author list (cited authors)

  • Hubbard, D. E., & Drews, P. L.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Hubbard, David E||Drews, Patricia L

publication date

  • January 2012

publisher