Sociomics! Using the “IssueCrawler” to Map, Monitor and Engage with the Global Proteomics Research Network.

McNally, Ruth (2005) Sociomics! Using the “IssueCrawler” to Map, Monitor and Engage with the Global Proteomics Research Network. Proteomics, 5 (12). pp. 3010-3016. ISSN 1615-9853

Abstract

We invite comment upon an experiment to locate proteomics on the WWW using a software tool called the IssueCrawler. We call our research sociomics because, like the bioscience omics, it is a semi-automated, computerised approach to the global analysis of data, whose computerised results can be integrated towards the development of a new systems sociology approach to the study of society. Our findings are that proteomics on the web is a scale-free network whose nodes display considerable dynamic range.