Probably the real breakthroughs will come when the opposite ends of the science world get together and understand each other.
Click to see a big map of science:
Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Bettencourt L, Chute R, et al. (2009) Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4803. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004803
If this was a map of the US, this blog would be well-traveled: pharmaceutical research in the equivalent of New York, cognitive science in LA, law and economics in Boise, polymer research, biotechnology and materials science along the I-95 from Boston to about South of the Border, brain research in Galveston, social and personality psychology and psychology in roughly the bible belt.
In reviewing scientific literature topics, however, I found some missing entirely. The scientific publication industry has clearly missed an important area, and one that I restrain myself from fulfilling. Here are some suggestions:
| “Journal of American Complaints” | “Proceedings of People With Not Much To Say Who Blog Incessantly” |
| “Annals of Imagined Scientific Facts” | “Archives of Grudges” |
| “Topics in Irrationality” | “Rant” |
| “Bulletin of the Undecided” | “Big Words That Make You Sound Smart Quarterly” |
