Using bibliographic data, Olivier Beauchesne has created a map of scientific collaborations, reports Nature's The Great Beyond Blog. Beauchesne, who works for the bibliometric consulting firm Science-Metrix, extracted collaboration information from journal aggregators and turned the collaborators' cities' names into geographical points to create his map, as he says at his blog. Nature's Richard Van Noorden adds that "many analyses in recent years — including reports from the National Science Foundation, UNESCO — have remarked on how science is entering an era of increasing international collaboration." An example of his maps is below, though there are more at his site:
