Marko, LANL, Biomed Central and University of Texas?! Bae Smith at SFI worked on some visualizations along the lines of your plots for their working paper collection.¹ Even on that small collection just having a clean authority file (mappings of author variant names down to one) was a substantial amount of work.
The data cleaning and various format conversions must be a rather menacing problem? Can you pull the full text for the citations and do concordances and stuff like that? Would it be worth robo-trawling through ISI² or is that just a drop in the bucket? (Was thinking it might be broader coverage.) Marcus ¹ http://www.santafe.edu/~baes/WorkingPapers ² http://scientific.thomson.com/products/wos ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
