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Mashups Reveal World's Top Scientific Cities
- nopinsight 16y agoLooking at the maps, one might wonder if the level of personal connections between researchers affect citation numbers somewhat. For groundbreaking papers and useless ones, this may not be an issue, but the quality of most papers are in between the two extremes. This may result in fewer citations for papers from researchers in less connected areas of the world, noticeably developing parts of Asia and Eastern Europe. An alternative hypothesis is that papers from those locations are in fact of lower quality. I think a debate is in order. > Not least of these is the performance of Cambridge, MA, home to two of the world's top institutions in MIT and Harvard, which could reasonably be expected to feature strongly in the data. Yet, Cambridge, MA, does not appear at all. I wonder why the author wrote down that paragraph despite obvious contradictions in the maps. Cambridge, MA is featured prominently in the Physics and Chemistry maps. It is only missing from the Psychology map.