Book review: Katy B\"orner, Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know. Cambridge, MA/ London UK: The MIT Press, 2010

TL;DR

Katy B"orner's book offers an accessible overview of visualization in scientometrics, linking scholarly insights with global exhibitions to showcase how knowledge evolution can be visualized and understood.

Contribution

The book bridges visualization techniques with scientometrics, expanding its accessibility and connecting scholarly work to public science exhibitions.

Findings

Highlights the role of visualization in understanding scientific knowledge evolution

Connects scientometrics with public science exhibitions

Provides scholarly background for visualizing science

Abstract

Katy B\"orner has written a wonderful book about visualization that makes our field of scientometrics accessible to much larger audiences. The book is to be read in relation to the ongoing series of exhibitions entitled "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science" currently touring the world. The book also provides the scholarly background to the exhibitions. It celebrates scientometrics as the discipline in the background that enables us to visualize the evolution of knowledge as the acumen of human civilization.