Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from “fullerenes” to “nanotubes”

Diana Lucio-Arias; Loet Leydesdorff

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-0304-4

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 70: Issue 3

Knowledge emergence in scientific communication: from “fullerenes” to “nanotubes”

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Diana Lucio-Arias

Diana Lucio-Arias Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Loet Leydesdorff

Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Pages:: 603–632

Online Publication Date:: 25 Feb 2007

Publication Date:: 01 Mar 2007

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-0304-4

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Abstract

This article explores the emergence of knowledge from scientific discoveries and their effects on the structure of scientific communication. Network analysis is applied to understand this emergence institutionally as changes in the journals; semantically as changes in the codification of meaning in terms of words; and cognitively as the new knowledge becomes the emergent foundation of further developments. The discovery of fullerenes in 1985 is analyzed as the scientific discovery that triggered a process which led to research in nanotubes.

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