Global visibility of publications through Digital Object Identifiers

This brief research report analyzes the availability of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) worldwide, highlighting the dominance of large publishing houses and the need for unique persistent identifiers to increase the visibility of publications from developing countries. The study reveals that a considerable amount of publications from developing countries are excluded from the global flow of scientific information due to the absence of DOIs, emphasizing the need for alternative publishing models. The authors suggest that the availability of DOIs should receive more attention in scholarly communication and scientometrics, contributing to a necessary debate on DOIs relevant for librarians, publishers, and scientometricians

Global visibility of publications through Digital Object Identifiers

This brief research report analyzes the availability of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) worldwide, highlighting the dominance of large publishing houses and the need for unique persistent identifiers to increase the visibility of publications from developing countries. The study reveals that a considerable amount of publications from developing countries are excluded from the global flow of scientific information due to the absence of DOIs, emphasizing the need for alternative publishing models. The authors suggest that the availability of DOIs should receive more attention in scholarly communication and scientometrics, contributing to a necessary debate on DOIs relevant for librarians, publishers, and scientometricians

A Decade of Scholarly Research on Open Knowledge Graphs

The proliferation of open knowledge graphs has led to a surge in scholarly research on the topic over the past decade. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the scholarly literature on open knowledge graphs published between 2013 and 2023. The study aims to identify the trends, patterns, and impact of research in this field, as well as the key topics and research questions that have emerged. The work uses bibliometric techniques to analyze a sample of 4445 scholarly articles retrieved from Scopus. The findings reveal an ever-increasing number of publications on open knowledge graphs published every year, particularly in developed countries (+50 per year). These outputs are published in highly-referred scholarly journals and conferences. The study identifies three main research themes: (1) knowledge graph construction and enrichment, (2) evaluation and reuse, and (3) fusion of knowledge graphs into NLP systems. Within these themes, the study identifies specific tasks that have received considerable attention, including entity linking, knowledge graph embedding, and graph neural networks

Text Categorization Can Enhance Domain-Agnostic Stopword Extraction

This paper investigates the role of text categorization in streamlining stopword extraction in natural language processing (NLP), specifically focusing on nine African languages alongside French. By leveraging the MasakhaNEWS, African Stopwords Project, and MasakhaPOS datasets, our findings emphasize that text categorization effectively identifies domain-agnostic stopwords with over 80% detection success rate for most examined languages. Nevertheless, linguistic variances result in lower detection rates for certain languages. Interestingly, we find that while over 40% of stopwords are common across news categories, less than 15% are unique to a single category. Uncommon stopwords add depth to text but their classification as stopwords depends on context. Therefore combining statistical and linguistic approaches creates comprehensive stopword lists, highlighting the value of our hybrid method. This research enhances NLP for African languages and underscores the importance of text categorization in stopword extraction.Comment: A Project Report for the Masakhane Research Communit

Stabilization of a certain class of fuzzy control systems with uncertainties

In this paper, we investigate the global uniform practical exponential stability for a class of uncertain Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems. The uncertainties are supposed uniformly to be bounded by some known integrable functions to obtain an exponential convergence toward a neighborhood of the origin. Therefore, we use common quadratic Lyapunov function (CQLF) and parallel distributed compensation (PDC) controller techniques to show the global uniform practical exponential stability of the closed-loop system. Numeric simulations are given to validate the proposed approach

Stability analysis and design of state estimated controller for delay fuzzy systems with parameter

This paper deals with the problem of stabilization by an estimated state feedback for a family of nonlinear time-delay Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy parameterized systems. The delay is supposed to be constant where the parameter-dependent controls laws are used to compensate the nonlinearities which are formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals, global exponential stability of the closed-loop systems is achieved. The controller and observer gains are able to be separately designed even in the presence of modeling uncertainty and state delay. Finally, a numerical example is given to show the applicability of the main result

Infectious epidemics and the research output of nations : a data-driven analysis

During the last years, several infectious diseases have caused widespread nationwide epidemics that affected information seeking behaviours, people mobility, economics and research trends. Examples of these epidemics are 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in mainland China and Hong Kong, 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in Guinea and Sierra Leone, 2015–2016 Zika epidemic in Brazil, Colombia and Puerto Rico and the recent COVID-19 epidemic in China and other countries. In this research article, we investigate the effect of large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases on the research productivity and landscape of nations through the analysis of the research outputs of main countries affected by SARS, Zika and Ebola epidemics as returned by Web of Science Core Collection. Despite the mobility restrictions and the limitations of work conditions due to the epidemics, we surprisingly found that the research characteristics and productivity of the countries that have excellent or moderate research traditions and communities are not affected by infectious epidemics due to their robust long-term research structures and policy. Similarly, large-scale infectious outbreaks can even boost the research productivity of countries with limited research traditions thanks to international capacity building collaborations provided by organisations and associations from leading research countries.The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Tunisia (MoHESR).https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jishj2022Institute for Technological Innovation (ITI

Global visibility of publications through Digital Object Identifiers

Ce bref rapport de recherche analyse la disponibilité des identificateurs d’objets numériques (DI) dans le monde entier, soulignant la domination des grandes maisons d’édition et le besoin d’identificateurs uniques persistants pour accroître la visibilité des publications des pays en développement. L’étude révèle que les publications des pays en développement sont exclues du flux mondial des informations scientifiques en raison de l’absence d’OID, soulignant la nécessité de modèles de publication alternatifs. Les auteurs suggèrent que la disponibilité des DOI devrait recevoir plus d’attention dans la communication de la recherche

An observer design for Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy bilinear control systems

In this paper, the observer design problem for a T-S fuzzy bilinear control system is investigated. First, an observer of Kalman type is designed to estimate the system states for the linear case. Then, some new sufficient conditions are derived to show the exponential convergence of the solutions of the error equation for fuzzy bilinear systems. Furthermore, we consider some uncertainties of the system that are bounded and satisfy a certain condition where an observer is designed. Moreover, an application to Van de Vusse system is given