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A Systematic Identification and Analysis of Scientists on Twitter
Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media---often referred to as
altmetrics---are increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of
scholarship. Such efforts, however, may produce highly misleading results, as
the entities that participate in conversations about science on these platforms
are largely unknown. For instance, if altmetric activities are generated mainly
by scientists, does it really capture broader social impacts of science? Here
we present a systematic approach to identifying and analyzing scientists on
Twitter. Our method can identify scientists across many disciplines, without
relying on external bibliographic data, and be easily adapted to identify other
stakeholder groups in science. We investigate the demographics, sharing
behaviors, and interconnectivity of the identified scientists. We find that
Twitter has been employed by scholars across the disciplinary spectrum, with an
over-representation of social and computer and information scientists;
under-representation of mathematical, physical, and life scientists; and a
better representation of women compared to scholarly publishing. Analysis of
the sharing of URLs reveals a distinct imprint of scholarly sites, yet only a
small fraction of shared URLs are science-related. We find an assortative
mixing with respect to disciplines in the networks between scientists,
suggesting the maintenance of disciplinary walls in social media. Our work
contributes to the literature both methodologically and conceptually---we
provide new methods for disambiguating and identifying particular actors on
social media and describing the behaviors of scientists, thus providing
foundational information for the construction and use of indicators on the
basis of social media metrics
Leveraging Citation Networks to Visualize Scholarly Influence Over Time
Assessing the influence of a scholar's work is an important task for funding
organizations, academic departments, and researchers. Common methods, such as
measures of citation counts, can ignore much of the nuance and
multidimensionality of scholarly influence. We present an approach for
generating dynamic visualizations of scholars' careers. This approach uses an
animated node-link diagram showing the citation network accumulated around the
researcher over the course of the career in concert with key indicators,
highlighting influence both within and across fields. We developed our design
in collaboration with one funding organization---the Pew Biomedical Scholars
program---but the methods are generalizable to visualizations of scholarly
influence. We applied the design method to the Microsoft Academic Graph, which
includes more than 120 million publications. We validate our abstractions
throughout the process through collaboration with the Pew Biomedical Scholars
program officers and summative evaluations with their scholars
The classical origin of modern mathematics
The aim of this paper is to study the historical evolution of mathematical
thinking and its spatial spreading. To do so, we have collected and integrated
data from different online academic datasets. In its final stage, the database
includes a large number (N~200K) of advisor-student relationships, with
affiliations and keywords on their research topic, over several centuries, from
the 14th century until today. We focus on two different topics, the evolving
importance of countries and of the research disciplines over time. Moreover we
study the database at three levels, its global statistics, the mesoscale
networks connecting countries and disciplines, and the genealogical level
A Multi-Relational Network to Support the Scholarly Communication Process
The general pupose of the scholarly communication process is to support the
creation and dissemination of ideas within the scientific community. At a finer
granularity, there exists multiple stages which, when confronted by a member of
the community, have different requirements and therefore different solutions.
In order to take a researcher's idea from an initial inspiration to a community
resource, the scholarly communication infrastructure may be required to 1)
provide a scientist initial seed ideas; 2) form a team of well suited
collaborators; 3) located the most appropriate venue to publish the formalized
idea; 4) determine the most appropriate peers to review the manuscript; and 5)
disseminate the end product to the most interested members of the community.
Through the various delinieations of this process, the requirements of each
stage are tied soley to the multi-functional resources of the community: its
researchers, its journals, and its manuscritps. It is within the collection of
these resources and their inherent relationships that the solutions to
scholarly communication are to be found. This paper describes an associative
network composed of multiple scholarly artifacts that can be used as a medium
for supporting the scholarly communication process.Comment: keywords: digital libraries and scholarly communicatio
Exploring the feasibility of international collaboration and relationship building through a virtual partnership scheme
International collaboration is an under-studied component of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This study sheds light on the process of international collaboration by illustrating an exploratory approach to the process of forming and maintaining collaborative partnerships. Participants in this study were put into pairs (each one comprised of one individual from the University of Glasgow and another from the University of Wisconsin System) and asked to participate in email correspondence over the course of one year. The text of participants’ emails was pooled and analyzed through a general inductive approach using NVivo software. The study, though small in nature, helps to illustrate and further understand international collaborative relationships. We offer suggestions for future international collaborations and discuss the implications of emphasizing such partnerships within SoTL
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