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What makes papers visible on social media? An analysis of various document characteristics
In this study we have investigated the relationship between different
document characteristics and the number of Mendeley readership counts, tweets,
Facebook posts, mentions in blogs and mainstream media for 1.3 million papers
published in journals covered by the Web of Science (WoS). It aims to
demonstrate that how factors affecting various social media-based indicators
differ from those influencing citations and which document types are more
popular across different platforms. Our results highlight the heterogeneous
nature of altmetrics, which encompasses different types of uses and user groups
engaging with research on social media.Comment: Presented at the 21th International Conference in Science &
Technology Indicators (STI), 13-16, September, 2016, Valencia, Spai
Measuring impact of academic research in computer and information science on society
Academic research in computer & information science (CIS) has
contributed immensely to all aspects of society. As academic
research today is substantially supported by various government
sources, recent political changes have created ambivalence
amongst academics about the future of research funding. With
uncertainty looming, it is important to develop a framework to
extract and measure the information relating to impact of CIS
research on society to justify public funding, and demonstrate the
actual contribution and impact of CIS research outside academia.
A new method combining discourse analysis and text mining of a
collection of over 1000 pages of impact case study documents
written in free-text format for the Research Excellence
Framework (REF) 2014 was developed in order to identify the
most commonly used categories or headings for reporting impact
of CIS research by UK Universities (UKU). According to the
research reported in REF2014, UKU acquired 83 patents in
various areas of CIS, created 64 spin-offs, generated £857.5
million in different financial forms, created substantial
employment, reached over 6 billion users worldwide and has
helped save over £1 billion Pounds due to improved processes etc.
to various sectors internationally, between 2008 and 2013
Automatische Vermittlung zwischen Interaktionsstilen
Die Wiederverwendung von Softwarekomponenten wird häufig durch
Inkompatibilitäten behindert. Ein Problem dabei sind unterschiedliche
Interaktionsstile. Es soll ein System entwickelt werden, das automatisch
zwischen verschiedenen Stilen vermitteln kann
Religion, politics and an apocryphal admonition: The German East African "Mecca letter" of 1908 in historical-critical analysis
AbstractThis article analyses a Muslim missive, which was circulated in German East Africa in 1908. Erroneously dubbed the “Mecca letter”, it called believers to repentance and sparked a religious revival, which alarmed the German administration. Their primarily political interpretation of the letter was retained in subsequent scholarship, which has overlooked two important textual resources for a better understanding of the missive: the presence of similar letters elsewhere and the fourteen copies still available in the Tanzanian National Archive. Presenting the first text-critical edition of the letter, together with a historical introduction of the extant specimens and a textual comparison to similar missives elsewhere, the article argues that the East African “Mecca letter” of 1908 was nothing more than a local circulation of a global chain letter. As such, its rapid transmission was not connected to a single political agency, but was likely prompted by a large variety of motivations.</jats:p
Historical Epistemology and Pentecostal Origins: History and Historiography in Ethiopian Pentecostalism
This article revisits the issue of historiography in Pentecostal studies, seeking to connect this
debate to recent theories of history coming from postcolonial and poststructuralist thought.
I argue that the historian of Pentecostalism should seek not only to reconstruct past events,
but, more than that, to offer a historical analysis of Pentecostal historiography. By drawing on
four related theoretical insights into history and applying them to a concrete example from
Ethiopian Pentecostalism, I aim to contribute to the epistemological reflection of Pentecostal
historiography
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