Meanings
- uncountableThe organization and presentation of visual information.
- uncountableThe study of visual information presented within scientific or other literature.
In order to emphasize the importance of the visual aspect of scholarly communication, a new field called viziometrics is recently proposed. This paper presents an on-going project for a case study of viziometrics where we focus on western blots within Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) literature.
2018, Satoshi Tsutsui, Zheng Gao, Zheng Wang, Guilin Meng, Ying Ding, “A case study of viziometrics: What’s the role of western blots in Alzheimer’s Disease literature?”, in iConference 2018 Proceedings1 more example
We adopt the term viziometrics to describe this line of research to convey the shared goals with bibliometrics and scientometrics. In this paper, we present an initial exploration of viziometrics by analyzing a corpus of papers from PubMed to relate the use and distribution of visual information with impact, and consider how these patterns change over time and across fields.
2016, Po-shen Lee, Jevin D. West, Bill Howe, “Viziometrics: Analyzing visual information in the scientific literature”, in ArXiv
Origin
Coined in 2016 (see quote below), based on visual and bibliometrics or scientometrics, from metrics.
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