Citation Networks in High Energy Physics http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0211/0211010v2.pdf anyone like statics; check the 'power law' interesting information on how math is all over the place and used by so many different feilds the pub also shares physicists are weird sometimes, just look at how analytical they are
hope you get something from the effort. can you add what stood out? (perhaps give another a chance to see the benefits)
I like the idea of networks and statistics, it has it pros and cons, which I will not list in detail. Statistics have allways been there in physics, by the way, its not a new concept. The earliest use of statistics I beleive was in the study of fluid dynamics. For example, lets say you're the first to have thought about air resistance, how would you formulate it mathimatically? and the how would you prove it? if you were to use an empirical method, you would need statistics to help conclude that the formula is true. PS: Thinking about it the earliest use of statistics could of been as early as Newton or even Lavoisier in chemistry.
did anyone notice how publications affects how knowledge is understood? something to the effect of different stokes for different folks; appears to be on the environment; access, usability and perferred application seems to me with the internet, we have the best environment on earth in which no bambridge scholars can do much about it; we can choose how we learn and how we convey; notice in the pub the implication that much data is currently isolated according to discipline, math and definitions of evidence. I see it as a sort of self filtering, in which discounting can occur based on opinion (method of conveyance) of data rather than application and evidence. There is no uniform frame that each venue of publicating firm can link each discipline to.
