Andrzej Pekalski networks of scientific interests with internal degrees of freedom through self-citation analysis

Old and recent theoretical works by Andrzej Pekalski (APE) are recalled as possible sources of interest for describing network formation and clustering in complex (scientific) communities, through self-organisation and percolation processes. Emphasis is placed on APE self-citation network over four decades. The method is that used for detecting scientists field mobility by focusing on author's self-citation, co-authorships and article topics networks as in [1,2]. It is shown that APE's self-citation patterns reveal important information on APE interest for research topics over time as well as APE engagement on different scientific topics and in different networks of collaboration. Its interesting complexity results from "degrees of freedom" and external fields leading to so called internal shock resistance. It is found that APE network of scientific interests belongs to independent clusters and occurs through rare or drastic events as in irreversible "preferential attachment processes", similar to those found in usual mechanics and thermodynamics phase transitions.Comment: 7 pages, 1 table, 44 references, submitted to Int J Mod Phys

Excellence initiatives in Nordic research policies. Policy issues - tensions and options

This report presents results from a research project (PEAC) studying the impact of funding schemes for Centres of Excellence (CoE) in the Nordic countries

Linking science to technology: using bibliographic references in patents to build linkage schemes.

In this paper, we develop and discuss a method to design a linkage scheme that links the systems of science and technology through the use of patent citation data. After conceptually embedding the linkage scheme in the current literature on science-technology interactions and associations, the methodology and algorithms used to decelop the linkage scheme are discussed in detail. The method is subsequently tested on and applied to subsets of USPTO patents. The results point to highly skewed citation distributions, enabling us to discern between those fields of technology that are highly science-interactive and those fields where technology develoment is highly independent from the scientific literature base.Science; Patents; Systems; Data; Algorithms; Distribution;

Term Formation – Is There a State of the Art?

The article discusses theoretical problems of term formation with respect to the tradition as well as to recent developments of terminology theory. Terminology theory has been challenged, discussed and revised during the last three decades. It is asked whether the subfield of term formation has experienced the same sort of theoretical challenging as have other subfields of terminology and whether a clear state of the art of term formation can be identified. Existing models of term formation are discussed and the main positions of some mod- ern approaches are outlined and discussed with respect to the consequences these approaches might have for theoretical and practical terminology work. The article argues that any attempt at developing a theory of term formation must take into account primary as well as secondary term formation. Func- tional aspects of terms are interesting to practitioners and hence, relevant to theory. The article agrees that the question of a specific theory of term forma- tion perhaps still is open, but suggests that a more modest approach to ‘theo- rising’ term formation in all its aspects should be encouraged.Straipsnyje aptariamos teorinės terminų darybos problemos atsižvelgiant į tra- diciją ir naujausią terminologijos teorijos raidą. Per paskutiniuosius tris dešimt mečius terminologijos teorija buvo ne kartą ginčijama, aptariama ir peržiūrima. Straipsnyje klausiama, ar terminų darybos sritis tapo tokių pačių teorinių dis- kusijų objektu, kaip ir kitos terminologijos mokslo sritys, ir ar galima nustatyti aiškią pažangą terminų darybos srityje. Aptariami esami terminų darybos mo- deliai, išdėstomi ir aptariami pagrindiniai šiuolaikinių teorinių prieigų principai atsižvelgiant į pasekmes, kurias šios prieigos gali turėti teoriniam ir praktiniam terminologiniam darbui. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad bet koks bandymas sukurti terminų darybos teoriją turi atsižvelgti į pirminę ir antrinę terminų darybą. Praktikus domina funkci- niai terminų aspektai, taigi jie yra svarbūs ir teorijai. Straipsnyje pritariama nuomonei, kad galbūt konkrečios terminų darybos teorijos klausimas yra vis dar atviras ir siūloma skatinti kuklesnį požiūrį į terminų darybos „teorizavimą“ visais jos aspektais.publishedVersio

The prestige and status of research fields within mathematics

While the ``hierarchy of science'' has been widely analysed, there is no corresponding study of the status of subfields within a given scientific field. We use bibliometric data to show that subfields of mathematics have a different ``standing'' within the mathematics community. Highly ranked departments tend to specialize in some subfields more than in others, and the same subfields are also over-represented in the most selective mathematics journals or among recipients of top prizes. Moreover this status of subfields evolves markedly over the period of observation (1984--2016), with some subfields gaining and others losing in standing. The status of subfields is related to different publishing habits, but some of those differences are opposite to those observed when considering the hierarchy of scientific fields. We examine possible explanations for the ``status'' of different subfields. Some natural explanations -- availability of funding, importance of applications -- do not appear to function, suggesting that factors internal to the discipline are at work. We propose a different type of explanation, based on a notion of ``focus'' of a subfield, that might or might not be specific to mathematics.Comment: 28 pages,many graph

BlogForever: D3.1 Preservation Strategy Report

This report describes preservation planning approaches and strategies recommended by the BlogForever project as a core component of a weblog repository design. More specifically, we start by discussing why we would want to preserve weblogs in the first place and what it is exactly that we are trying to preserve. We further present a review of past and present work and highlight why current practices in web archiving do not address the needs of weblog preservation adequately. We make three distinctive contributions in this volume: a) we propose transferable practical workflows for applying a combination of established metadata and repository standards in developing a weblog repository, b) we provide an automated approach to identifying significant properties of weblog content that uses the notion of communities and how this affects previous strategies, c) we propose a sustainability plan that draws upon community knowledge through innovative repository design

Identifying creative research accomplishments : methodology and results for nanotechnology and human genetics

Motivated by concerns about the organizational and institutional conditions that foster research creativity in science, we focus on how creative research can be defined, operationalized, and empirically identified. A functional typology of research creativity is proposed encompassing theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in science. We then apply this typology through a process of creative research event identification in the fields of nanotechnology and human genetics in Europe and the United States, combining nominations made by several hundred experts with data on prize winners. Characteristics of creative research in the two respective fields are analyzed, and there is a discussion of broader insights offered by our approach. --