A PPLYING D ATA V ISUALIZATION T OOLS FOR N ARRATIVE R EVIEWS OF L ITERATURE Jack E. Scott, Sc.D., The Madrillon Group Inc. Rick Borchelt, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Energy Margaret S. Blasinsky, M.A., The Madrillon Group Inc. Mary C. Dufour, M.D., M.P.H., The Madrillon Group Inc.

Available Information Time to Keep Up With It 2

How do we filter and absorb information we need? Study 3

CollectingCategorizingReadingEvaluatingWriting 4

“Visual representations of data take advantage of the unique ability of visual perception to detect meaningful patterns that might otherwise remain hidden.” Stephen Few (2007) 5

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Construct literature database Explore with IN-SPIRE Sense- making 7

Topic 1 Related Key Words 8

Final Database 1,237 articles 2,462 authors 471 journals Over 700 Key Words 9

10 More than twice as many articles were published between (837) as between (400).

United States 427 Canada 77 Russia 2 China 14 Australia 51 India 11 Mexico 4 Brazil 10 United Kingdom 270 Germany: 30 Italy: 23 Portugal: 2 Morocco 2 Nigeri a 1 Greece: 12 France: 13 Spain: 16 South Africa 3 Japan 24 Columbia 2 Netherlands: 35 New Zealand 25 Sweden: 23 Denmark: 23 11

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Broad Overview of the Thematic Landscape Drilling down by Topics 13

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The Science Communication literature is more closely aligned with science and technology than communication. Science Communication research is over-using some methodological tools (surveys and content analysis), and under-utilizing others (qualitative methods). Science communications researchers appear to favor publication in the so-called “grey literature” (especially books and monographs) over peer-reviewed journals. 18

Plenary Session presentation well received “Pick-up” in a subsequent 2012 Journal of Science Communication editorial 19

Benefits: Value in exploring large body of research literature Value in communicating findings Caveats: Learning to use the package Importance of key words 20