The application of mathematics and statistical methods to scholarly communication has facilitated the systematic analysis of the modern digital tide of literature. This chapter reviews three of such applications: coauthorship, bibliographic coupling, and coword networks. It also presents an exploratory case of study for the knowledge circulation literature. It was found a diverse geographical production, mainly in the Global North and Asian institutions with significant intermediation of universities from USA, Colombia, and Japan. The research fronts identified were related to science and medicine's history and philosophy; education, health, policy studies; and a set of interdisciplinary topics. Finally, the knowledge pillars were comprised of urban planning policy, economic geography, and historical and theoretical perspectives in the Netherlands and Central Europe; globalization and science, technology, and innovation and historical and institutional frameworks in the UK; and cultural and learning studies in the XXI century.

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科学制图研究学术知识传播

数学和统计方法在学术交流中的应用促进了对现代数字文学潮流的系统分析。本章回顾了其中的三种应用：共同作者，书目耦合和共同词网络。它还提供了关于知识传播文献的探索性研究案例。人们发现它的地理产地多样化，主要分布在全球北部和亚洲的机构中，而来自美国，哥伦比亚和日本的大学则具有重要的中介作用。确定的研究前沿与科学和医学的历史和哲学有关；教育，卫生，政策研究；以及一组跨学科的主题。最后，知识支柱包括城市规划政策，经济地理，荷兰和中欧的历史和理论观点；英国的全球化，科学，技术，创新以及历史和体制框架；以及二十一世纪的文化和学习研究。