measuring science – tracing the authors

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Measuring Science – Tracing the authors

Andrea Scharnhorst Introduction into the VIVO Symposium

January 18, 2013

DANS/eHumanities group KNAW

Overview

•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on researchers

•Research information systems

•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape

•Experiments on NARCIS– Analysis and Understanding– Analysis and Interfaces– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

Andrea Scharnhorst - CV

• Department of Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Degree “Diplom-Physiker”, 1984

• PhD, at the ‘Philosophical Problems of Natural Sciences’ division, Philosophy Department at the Humboldt University of Berlin, 1988

• Head of eResearch at DANS and scientific coordinator of the Computational

Humanities programme at the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – DANS=Data Archiving and Networked Services Institute (DANS)

Overview

•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on researchers

•Research information systems

•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape

•Experiments on NARCIS– Analysis and Understanding– Analysis and Interfaces– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

What is a topic?What is a paradigm?

CommunicationText Actors

words journals references authors institutions countries…

Co-word mapsSemantic maps(Callon, Rip,White)

Citation environmentsof journals (Leydesdorff)

Maps of science(Boyack, Börner, Klavans;Leydesdorff, Rafols)

Bibliographic couplingCitation networks

Co-citation networks(Marshokova, Small/Griffith)

Productivity(Lotka)

Coauthorship(…..)

Disciplinary profilesPerformanceImpact (…..)

International collaboration (…..)

What are fields and disciplines?

What are the hot areas and research fronts?What are the knowledge flows?

Core and peripheryof knowledge exchange in a globalized economy

Biographies, key player, Individual vs group dynamics

Key players, evaluation

Meaning of a citation, deeper understanding of knwoledge flowsSentiment of citations Small, Thelwall, Boyack…

Ref: Scharnhorst, Garfield, 2010, Tracing scientific influence, http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3525

Hunting for the authors – creators of innovation and heart of team science

Ref: A. Scharnhorst Wisemap Researchers http://app.wisemapping.com/c/maps/80173/public

Every database with authors has an authorID.To issue cross-database authorID’s one need an institution.

Ref: P. Wouters, R. Costas. 2012. Users, narcissism and control – tracking the impact of scholarly publications in the 21st century . SURF report http://www.surf.nl/nl/publicaties/Documents/Users%20narcissism%20and%20control.pdf

Quantitative studies of science- scientometrics, bibliometrics, informetrics

Processes of knowledge creationInput Output

Number of scientistsNumber of PhD studentsR&D expenditureInstruments…..EducationBooksDataInformation resources

Number of publications/citationsNumber of PhD studentsNumber of patents…..BooksJournalsData

LibrariesArchivesLibrariesArchivesInformation

provisionInformationstorage

Persons – Organizations - Projects

NiederlandeRenommierter Psychologe gesteht Fälschungen

Overview

•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on researchers

•Research information systems

•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape

•Experiments on NARCIS– Analysis and Understanding– Analysis and Interfaces– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

ElectronicArchivingSYstem and NARCIS – Core services (‘products’) of DANS

www.easy.dans.knaw.nl

www.narcis.nl

DANS as non-proprietary information provider DANS as non-proprietary information provider contributes to transparence and accessibilitycontributes to transparence and accessibility

public funded researchpublic funded research

What is a Reseach Information System?

Ref: KG Jeffery 2008 History of CRIS http://www.eurocris.org/Uploads/Web%20pages/historyCRIS/3HistoryofCRIS.ppt See also: Nick Sheppard. "Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS". July 2010, Ariadne Issue 64 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/wrn-repos-2010-05-rpt/

http://eu-research.blogspot.com/2009/02/number-of-researchers-by-world-region.html

Researcher as innovators andhuman capital asset for the knowledge based economy.

(Current) Research Information Systems in Europe – EuroCRIS

http://www.eurocris.org/Index.php?page=hometext&t=1

The Dutch situation – many playersMetis is very detailed, fed by admin (universities, KNAW)but has a limited on-line interface.

CWTS is the ‘Scientific Observatory’ in NL forResearch Evaluation; but the databases are not public.

NARCIS is the main national portal for those looking for information about researchers and their work. OUR CASE

Overview

•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on researchers

•Research information systems

•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape

•Experiments on NARCIS– Analysis and Understanding– Analysis and Interfaces– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

From NOD to NARCIS

Ref: http://web.archive.org/web/20070226142224/http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/

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Harvesting publications from Dutch repositories

Links to datasets in EASY

18137 records47502

2894

19VISION: All research information under one roof

Overview• Andrea’s journey

• Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on researchers

• Research information systems

• NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape

• Experiments on NARCIS– Analysis and Understanding– Analysis and Interfaces– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

265 professors with multiple university affiliations that interlink the Dutch universities to one national network

Size and composition of a collectionVisual feedback for ‘water’

Visual navigating through collaboration

Visual analytics – burst of publications

Evaluation - Data matching experiment

8378 professors

NARCISCWTS – ‘Golden Set’

1462 professors

Testing automated techniquesto find publications and citationsfor author outside the 1462

Collaboration with Rodrigo Costas, Ed Noyens (both CWTS), Linda Reijnhoudt, Katy Boerner (both DANS, KNAW)

References

Publications•http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/andrea-scharnhorst

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•ResearchID Web of Knowledge•LinkedIn•http://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=QcS8uh89nbUC&hl=

nl•http://www.authormapper.com/search.aspx?q=Scharnhorst%20Andrea

Other worksWikipedia – UDC map•http://scimaps.org/maps/map/design_vs_emergence__127/

•http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3769 •http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0788

Enhanced publications •http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhkD2OQSLNw •http://ep-books.ehumanities.nl/

Interfaces•http://www.drasticdata.nl/DDHome.php?m=514•https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:49791 - Please, use the data, experiment yourself [and cite publication and dataset]!•http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3200

More references• K. Börner, A. Scharnhorst (2009) Visual Conceptualizations and Models

of Science. Editorial for the special issue „Science of Science: Conceptualizations and Models of Science“ Journal of Informetrics 3(3), 161-172, Preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3562

• A. Scharnhorst, K. Börner, P. Van den Besselaar (eds) (2012) Models of Science Dynamics – Encounters Between Complexity Theory and Information Sciences. Springer, Understanding Complexity Series, 300 pages

eResearch DANS

Thank you for your attention! For more information please contact

Andrea.scharnhorst@dans.knaw.nl

Leen BreureEnhanced publications, eHistory

Dirk RoordaQueries as annotations, CLARIN, Circulation of knowledge

Peter DoorneHistory, Clarin, Dariah, ClariahDirector of DANS

Rene van HorikSustainability and permanence, multi-media sources, APARSEN, NEDIMAH

Frank van der MostScientific careers and cultures of data sharing, ACUMEN

Albert Moroño PeñuelaSemantic web, CEDAR

Linda ReijnhoudtNARCIS, Visualizations

Katy BörnerIndiana UniversityVisiting fellow DANS-KNAW

Christophe GuéretSemantic web, complex networksCEDAR

Ashkan AskpourHistory, information sciences, IISHCEDAR

Olav ten BoschDrastic data

Cheng Goa, Krzysztof Suchecki, Almila AkdagKNOWLEDGE SPACE LAB

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