Web Usage Data Outline Map Of Knowledge

摘要

When users click from one page to another while looking through online scientific journals, they generate a chain of connections between things they think belong together. Now a billion such 'clickstream events' have been analysed by researchers to map these connections on a grand scale. The work provides a fascinating snapshot of the web of interconnections between disciplines, which some data-mining experts believe reveals the degree to which work that is not often cited-including work in the social sciences and humanities-is widely consulted and can form bridges between scientific disciplines.