From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 13:37:07 MDT
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Smigrodzki, Rafal wrote:
> A similar way of looking at scientific data already exists in the form of
> maps relating scientific disciplines and specific projects, produced by
> citation analysis by the ISI.
The only problem with that is that the ISI only works through
the "established" publishing circles (scientific clique?).
Early adopters of more advanced technologies (myself, Anders,
to a lesser extent Robert Freitas, Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, etc.
[i.e. those who split their efforts into conventional and advanced
venues]) have a higher "citation index" on the web than we do in the
conventional literature.
There is still a huge amount of division between "scientific disciplines"
and that is functioning as a barrier to the relative acceleration
of breakthroughs in nanotechnology. So a better measure of real
progress might be in the bridges of cross-discipline research.
Kartoo could easily be tailored to display that. I'm not sure
the ISI analysis would be as useful.
Robert
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