Scientific Research Synthesis Essay

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There has been an incredible amount of scientific advances in our society over the past 300 years. Scientific theories such as magnetism, gravity and dark matter have surfaced. Natural philosophy has been backed up by physics, which is backed up by mathematics, has now taken a role of a hub science. Scientific research has been so prevalent and has continued to accelerate drastically during the past 100 years. According to the United States Department of Labor, the American spending on food, clothing and shelter has dropped 30 percent since 1901. On the other hand, the amount of scientists, research articles and scientific specializations have increased undoubtedly since 1901. This correlation questions if the sciences are still based on a central discipline. …show more content…

He uses scientomentric and bibliometric analyses to identify any pattern of scientific influence within each other. He uses the Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) to help enhance his gathered information. Therefore, using citation patterns, he was able to sort and group together journals that contained the same sub-discipline. Once all of the data were collected, he assembled a two-dimensional spatial map of all of the sciences which were divided into two fields. The map depicts the scientific disciplines, the sciences that relate to the particular field and the strength of impact is has on the bordering disciplines. He concluded that the modern sciences do not derive from a one source. It derives from mathematics, physics, chemistry, earth sciences, medicine, psychology and the social sciences. Nuclear and electrical engineering can be found between physics and math while neuroscience, cardiology and genetics are sciences found within psychology and medicine. The more specific the science, such as economics, law and political science, they can be found towards the outside of the

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