  The application of mathematics and statistical methods to scholarly
communication has facilitated the systematic analysis of the modern digital
tide of literature. This chapter reviews three of such applications:
coauthorship, bibliographic coupling, and coword networks. It also presents an
exploratory case of study for the knowledge circulation literature. It was
found a diverse geographical production, mainly in the Global North and Asian
institutions with significant intermediation of universities from USA,
Colombia, and Japan. The research fronts identified were related to science and
medicine's history and philosophy; education, health, policy studies; and a set
of interdisciplinary topics. Finally, the knowledge pillars were comprised of
urban planning policy, economic geography, and historical and theoretical
perspectives in the Netherlands and Central Europe; globalization and science,
technology, and innovation and historical and institutional frameworks in the
UK; and cultural and learning studies in the XXI century.
