What can heterogeneity add to the scientometric map? Steps towards algorithmic historiography
Loet Leydesdorff · Presses des Mines eBooks · 2010
IntroductionThe Actor Network represents heterogeneous entities as actants (Callon et al., 1983, 1986). Although computer programs for the visualization of social networks increasingly allow us to represent heterogeneity in a network using different shapes and colors for the visualization, hitherto this possibility has scarcely been exploited (Mogoutov et al., 2008). In this contribution, I study the question of what heterogeneity can add specifically to the visualization of a network. How d...