Trends in Science Mapping: The co-use of scientific literature as evidence of the interests of researchers Torres Salinas, Daniel Jiménez Contreras, Evaristo Robinson García, Nicolás Science maps Information visualization University of Navarre Co-use Consumption of scientific literature Co-downloading This is a preprint version of a paper accepted to be published in El Profesional de la Información – ISSN 1386-6710 Special number on information visualization - May 2014 This paper explores de possibility of constructing science maps based on the co-use of the staff of an academic institution make of scientific literature. For this, we define co-use as the co-occurrence of scientific information requests by a given user in platform of scientific journals. We use request data from the University of Navarre to the ScienceDirect platform in 2012 in order to analyze the potential of such methodological approach. We conclude by emphasizing the viability of such methodology when exploring the research interests of an academic institution along with the relations between different disciplines. 2014-03-05T07:34:16Z 2014-03-05T07:34:16Z 2014 info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint Torres-Salinas, D.; Jiménez-Contreras, E.; Robinson-García, N. Trends in Science Mapping: The co-use of scientific literature as evidence of the interests of researchers [preprint]. El Profesional de la Información (2014). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30671] 1386-6710 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30671 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License