Knowledge evolution in physics research: An analysis of bibliographic coupling networks

• Main Authors: Liu, Wenyuan, Nanetti, Andrea, Cheong, Siew Ann
• Other Authors: Xia, Feng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Physics; Publication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88036; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44528
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Even as we advance the frontiers of physics knowledge, our understanding of how this knowledge evolves remains at the descriptive levels of Popper and Kuhn. Using the American Physical Society (APS) publications data sets, we ask in this paper how new knowledge is built upon old knowledge. We do so...