The  next special topics issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST),  to be scheduled for 2003, will be on the topic of Visualization of Scientific Paradigms. The guest editor  for this issue will be Dr. Chaomei Chen of Brunel University.

Background

Thomas  Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolution has generated profound and far-reaching impact over nearly four decades since early 1960s in a wide range of disciplines such as philosophy, history, social sciences, and physical sciences. Today, the advances of several key technologies in text processing, information visualization, and domain analysis provide potentially powerful means to detect and track the telltale signatures of the very existence of paradigms and paradigm shifts.

This  special  topic issue will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners to present the  latest  development  of enabling techniques, methodologies, and case studies towards the realization of the ultimate goal of identifying  and  predicting  the  dynamics  of a scientific paradigm and the structure of a scientific community.

Topical Theme

Authors are invited to submit  original  papers  in  related areas  for  the special topic issue. Example topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

•      Characteristics of a paradigm
•      Measurement and visualization of a paradigm
•      Scientometrics
•      Citation analysis
•      Author co-citation analysis
•      Domain analysis
•      Visualization of social networks in scientific communities
•      Visualization of knowledge structures
•      Visualization of changing vocabularies of a subject domain
•      Visualization of classic and landmark works
•      Case studies of competing paradigms
•      Case studies of a paradigm shift
•      Research agenda
•      Practical implications to information science as well as to scientific activities

Inquiries should be made to the guest editor via email, fax, or telephone.  Authors should inform guest editor of intent to submit before submitting a a manuscript.  Electronic submissions  of  manuscripts  in  PDF or Word (97 or later) are recommended  via  email to chaomei.chen@cis.drexel.edu. If manuscripts are submitted in printed form, please send four copies of full articles to the guest editor at:

    Dr Chaomei Chen
    College of Information Science and Technology
    Drexel University
    3141 Chestnut Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
 
    Email: chaomei.chen@cis.drexel.edu
    WWW: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/

Important Dates
 

All manuscripts will be reviewed by a panel of referees. Original  artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web, as is further information about JASIST, at http://www.asis.org/.