Published in Alex Holcombe's blog
Author Alex O. Holcombe

So I knew neuroscience has exploded over the last few decades, but I didn’t know its emergence as a more autonomous discipline is “the biggest structural change in scientific citation patterns over the past decade”. In the authors’ words that follow, they are referring to their figure showing neuroscience emerging as a new citation macro-cluster: “We also highlight the biggest structural change in scientific citation patterns over the past