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by ColinWright 4345 days ago
The OP hasn't taken the time to tell us what this is about, and it's far from clear. Here's some text from the linked page:

    The Shape of Science is an information visualization
    project whose aim is to reveal the structure of science.

    More details can be found in the paper Graphical interface
    of the SCImago Journal & Country Rank: an interactive
    approach to accessing bibliometric information.
The paper is here: http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com/contenidos/2014/...

From that paper:

    Abstract

    A graphical interface designed to access the bibliometric
    indicators database of the SCImago Journal & Country Rank
    portal ... is described. The map was generated from the
    relational matrix based on the citation, co-citation, and
    bibliographic coupling formed by the nearly 20,000 publications
    (journals and conference proceedings) registered in Scopus.
    The map layout is based on a variant of a force-directed
    algorithm using Noack’s proposal of an edge-repulsion energy
    model. The interface allows the publications’ bibliometric
    indicators and the cluster structures that they form to be
    displayed based on their shared use by the authors of the
    documents. To facilitate navigation, the interface automatically
    positions the reference areas and subject categories which are
    viewable via zoom-and-pan. The interface may be found to
    constitute a useful tool for analyses of the Scopus publications’
    presence in different scientific domains, and of the global
    distribution of the publishing capacity of different countries
    and regions. It uses the method of overlaying maps to locate
    subsets of selected publications in the context of the global
    publication structure.