Phylomemetic Patterns in Science Evolution—The Rise and Fall of Scientific Fields

David Chavalarias; Jean-Philippe Cointet

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054847

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Phylomemetic Patterns in Science Evolution—The Rise and Fall of Scientific Fields

David Chavalarias ,

Contributed equally to this work with: David Chavalarias, Jean-Philippe Cointet

* E-mail: david.chavalarias@ehess.fr

Affiliations Complex Systems Institute of Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF), Paris, France, CAMS, CNRS - EHESS, Paris, France
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Jean-Philippe Cointet

Contributed equally to this work with: David Chavalarias, Jean-Philippe Cointet

Affiliations Complex Systems Institute of Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF), Paris, France, INRA-SenS, INRA, Marne-la-Vallée, France
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Phylomemetic Patterns in Science Evolution—The Rise and Fall of Scientific Fields

David Chavalarias,
Jean-Philippe Cointet

Published: February 11, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054847

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Related work and model of social dynamics of science

Posted by fmenczer on 26 Feb 2013 at 02:01 GMT

Interesting paper. The ideas of cohesion around the emergence of fields, and branching and merging of disciplines, are also used in a model proposed in a recent paper from our group, which is not cited but seems related and relevant:

X. Sun & al: Social Dynamics of Science. Sci. Rep. 3:1069, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038...

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