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Quantitative Perspectives on Fifty Years of the Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of Biology provides a fifty-year long record for
examining the evolution of the history of biology as a scholarly discipline. In
this paper, we present a new dataset and preliminary quantitative analysis of
the thematic content of JHB from the perspectives of geography, organisms, and
thematic fields. The geographic diversity of authors whose work appears in JHB
has increased steadily since 1968, but the geographic coverage of the content
of JHB articles remains strongly lopsided toward the United States, United
Kingdom, and western Europe and has diversified much less dramatically over
time. The taxonomic diversity of organisms discussed in JHB increased steadily
between 1968 and the late 1990s but declined in later years, mirroring broader
patterns of diversification previously reported in the biomedical research
literature. Finally, we used a combination of topic modeling and nonlinear
dimensionality reduction techniques to develop a model of multi-article fields
within JHB. We found evidence for directional changes in the representation of
fields on multiple scales. The diversity of JHB with regard to the
representation of thematic fields has increased overall, with most of that
diversification occurring in recent years. Drawing on the dataset generated in
the course of this analysis, as well as web services in the emerging digital
history and philosophy of science ecosystem, we have developed an interactive
web platform for exploring the content of JHB, and we provide a brief overview
of the platform in this article. As a whole, the data and analyses presented
here provide a starting-place for further critical reflection on the evolution
of the history of biology over the past half-century.Comment: 45 pages, 14 figures, 4 table
VI Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods: Book of Abstracts
The VI Workshop on Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods (WCDANM) is going to be held on June 27-29, 2019, in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal and it is a unique opportunity to disseminate scientific research related to the areas of Mathematics in general, with particular relevance to the areas of Computational Data Analysis and Numerical Methods in theoretical and/or practical field, using new techniques, giving especial emphasis to applications in Medicine, Biology, Biotechnology, Engineering, Industry, Environmental Sciences, Finance, Insurance, Management and Administration. The meeting will provide a forum for discussion and debate of ideas with interest to the scientific community in general. With this meeting new scientific collaborations among colleagues, namely new collaborations in Masters and PhD projects are expected. The event is open to the entire scientific community (with or without communication/poster)
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