Fig. 4.

The GBIF map of science, visualizing the network of interdisciplinary knowledge facilitated through GBIF-mediated data in the context of a broader research landscape. The reference base map (gray lines), the UCSD map of science (36), displays a network of >25,000 journals classified across 554 subdisciplines (nodes), grouped into 13 primary disciplines (colors). Circles illustrate GBIF-mediated studies (2003–2019) centered on subdiscipline node assignments with circle size proportion to number of studies. Note that only GBIF-mediated studies published in journals in UCSD map of science are included (2,810 articles, 548 journals). Map is a 2D projection of a spherical 3D layout (i.e., the right and left of map connect) and produced using the Sci2 Tool (61).