This month’s WIRED UK mag­a­zine fea­tures a remix of one of the well-formed.eigenfactor visu­al­iza­tions in their info­porn section.

Together with my col­leagues in Seat­tle and Umea, I mod­i­fied the “change over time” visu­al­iza­tion to tell a spe­cific story: The for­ma­tion of neu­ro­science as a field of its own right over the last decade. Orig­i­nally scat­tered across related dis­ci­plines (such as med­i­cine, mol­e­c­u­lar and cell biol­ogy or neu­rol­ogy), the neu­ro­sci­en­tific jour­nals start to define a niche of their own, reflected in the dense clus­ter emerg­ing in 2005.

Down­load a larger ver­sion with full explana­tory text here: png (1MB) pdf (4MB)

And here is some more in depth info: (more…)