viziometrics

Noun

viziometrics (uncountable)

1. The organization and presentation of visual information.
2. The study of visual information presented within scientific or other literature.
   • 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...2016, Po-shen Lee, Jevin D. West, Bill Howe, “Viziometrics: Analyzing visual information in the scientific literature”, in ArXiv
   • 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...