Miao et al., "The latent structure of global scientific development" (2022)

Lili Miao, Dakota Murray, Woo-Sung Jung, Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Yong-Yeol Ahn, Nature Human Behaviour 6(9), 1206–1217 (2022)
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@article{miao2022latent,
    author = {Lili Miao and Dakota Murray and Woo-Sung Jung and Vincent Larivi\`{e}re and Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
    title = {The latent structure of global scientific development},
    journal = {Nature Human Behaviour},
    volume = {6},
    number = {9},
    pages = {1206--1217},
    doi = {10.1038/s41562-022-01367-x},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2104.10812},
    primaryClass = {cs.SI},
    year = {2022},
}

Uses countries’ internationally indexed publications to identify a three-cluster structure in the relatedness network of disciplines. National research portfolios become more diverse over time, while global scientific production becomes increasingly specialized.

National scientific development, Map of science, Economic development