Inherited aggregate experiment
The Counted Map
Nigel Williams built a fresh 98-concept map from a large Scopus corpus. This public projection retains all 1,856 aggregate links and their thresholds, while removing the private corpus, Scopus EIDs and every raw cited-reference string.
What a line really means
A link is a keyword-labelled citation signal in this particular corpus. Records whose titles matched the source term contained cited-reference strings matching the target term, at least five times across at least three distinct citing records.
That is weaker and more awkward than “work on X cites work on Y”, because the matching is lexical and concepts can be broad, overlapping or ambiguous. It does not establish influence, agreement, derivation, importance or a clean citation between two settled literatures.
All 1,856 aggregate links
What is and is not reproducible
The build and validation code are included. The run reported 85,832 source documents and 13,792,287 cited-reference rows. The licensed source corpus and its shrink step are not public, so this release cannot independently reproduce the figures. They remain Nigel’s reported aggregate result, now labelled accordingly.
The public dataset keeps aggregate weights, distinct-citing-record counts, concentration flags, years and exemplar DOI handles. It publishes zero raw Scopus reference strings, abstracts, affiliations, keywords or EIDs. A private Claude artefact URL from the fork has also been removed.
Credit
Concept vocabulary, corpus build, thresholds, first results, viewer and limitations analysis by Nigel Williams. Public projection, terminology correction and rights boundary curated by Benjamin P Taylor. The map is an inherited research experiment, not a claim that its counts are the final shape of systems, cybernetics or complexity.