scholarly journals The intellectual foundation of the elite of Brazilian researchers on knowledge organization domain

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Carina de ARAÚJO ◽  
Leilah Santiago BUFREM
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Bibliographic Coupling ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Productive Author ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This study aims to analyze the intellectual foundation of the literature on knowledge organization published from 1972 to 2018 by authors enrolled in the Research Productivity Fellowship from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, in Brazil. The corpus of analysis is composed of 166 papers indexed in Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação, which is a database that gathers the scientific literature published in Information Science journals in Brazil. It is an exploratory study that uses citation analysis as the methodological procedure, through author co-citation analysis and author bibliographic coupling. Fujita is identified as the most productive author, with 18 articles. Dahlberg is the most cited author, with 53 citations. The highest frequency of author co-citation is between Hjørland and Dahlberg; Tálamo and Kobashi. They are the seminal authors to the Brazilian scientists studied in this paper. The strongest relationships in the author bibliographic coupling network are between Lara and Bufrem, Lara and Guimarães, and Bufrem and Fujita. They cited 9 authors in common in the papers analyzed in this research. The conclusion is that there is an influence of European literature among the scientists addressed in this study. The results indicate the possibility of developing diachronic studies on the continuing influences of cited authors, especially from seminal authors, to analyze their permanence or transience over time.

scholarly journals Research Creativity and Productivity in Political Science: A Research Agenda for Understanding Alternative Career Paths and Attitudes Toward Professional Work in the Profession

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Kim Quaile Hill
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Scientific Careers ◽  
Publication Success ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTA growing body of research investigates the factors that enhance the research productivity and creativity of political scientists. This work provides a foundation for future research, but it has not addressed some of the most promising causal hypotheses in the general scientific literature on this topic. This article explicates the latter hypotheses, a typology of scientific career paths that distinguishes how scientific careers vary over time with respect to creative ambitions and achievements, and a research agenda based on the preceding components for investigation of the publication success of political scientists.

An exploratory study of the all-author bibliographic coupling analysis: Taking scientometrics for example

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152098129
Author(s):  
Song Yanhui ◽  
Wu Lijuan ◽  
Chen Shiji
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Intellectual Structure ◽  
Bibliographic Coupling ◽  
Weak Correlation ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Coupling Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Take All

All-author bibliographic coupling analyses (AABCA) take all authors of the article into account when constructing author coupling relationships. Taking scientometrics as an example, this article takes the papers from 2010 to 2019 as data sample and divides them into two periods (limited to 5 years) to discuss the performance of AABCA in discovering potential academic communities and intellectual structure of this discipline. It is found that when all authors of the paper are considered, the relationship between the bibliographic coupling authors presents a certain regularity and the bibliographic coupling is likely to be passed between different pairs of authors. With the transitivity of the coupling relationship, AABCA can effectively identify and discover the potential academic groups of this discipline, and more fully reflect the degree of cooperation among authors. AABCA is an effective method to reveal the intellectual structure in the field of scientometrics, and it is easier to find some small research topics with weak correlation. In addition, AABCA is also an ideal way to explore the author’s research interests over time.

scholarly journals Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-319
Author(s):  
Richard P. Smiraglia
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Intellectual Content ◽  
Large Sets ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Entity Relationship ◽  
Mental Constructs ◽  
Over Time

A work is a deliberately created informing entity intended for communication. A work consists of abstract intellectual content that is distinct from any object that is its carrier. In library and information science, the importance of the work lies squarely with the problem of information retrieval. Works are mentefacts-intellectual (or mental) constructs that serve as artifacts of the cultures in which they arise. The meaning of a work is abstract at every level, from its creator’s conception of it, to its reception and inherence by its consumers. Works are a kind of informing object and are subject to the phenomenon of instantiation, or realization over time. Research has indicated a base typology of instantiation. The problem for information retrieval is to simultaneously collocate and disambiguate large sets of instantiations. Cataloging and bibliographc tradition stipulate an alphabetico-classed arrangement of works based on an authorship principle. FRBR provided an entity-relationship schema for enhanced control of works in future catalogs, which has been incorporated into RDA. FRBRoo provides an empirically more precise model of work entities as informing objects and a schema for their representation in knowledge organization systems.

Ciência da Informação e Humanidades Digitais

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO CARLOS PALETTA
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

This work aims to presents partial results on the research project conducted at the Observatory of the Labor Market in Information and Documentation, School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo on Information Science and Digital Humanities. Discusses Digital Humanities and informational literacy. Highlights the evolution of the Web, the digital library and its connections with Digital Humanities. Reflects on the challenges of the Digital Humanities transdisciplinarity and its connections with the Information Science. This is an exploratory study, mainly due to the current and emergence of the theme and the incipient bibliography existing both in Brazil and abroad.Keywords: Digital Humanities; Information Science; Transcisciplinrity; Information Literacy; Web of Data; Digital Age.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study of COVID-19 Information on Twitter in the Greater Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Ninghan Chen ◽  
Zhiqiang Zhong ◽  
Jun Pang
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Representation Learning ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Over Time

The outbreak of the COVID-19 led to a burst of information in major online social networks (OSNs). Facing this constantly changing situation, OSNs have become an essential platform for people expressing opinions and seeking up-to-the-minute information. Thus, discussions on OSNs may become a reflection of reality. This paper aims to figure out how Twitter users in the Greater Region (GR) and related countries react differently over time through conducting a data-driven exploratory study of COVID-19 information using machine learning and representation learning methods. We find that tweet volume and COVID-19 cases in GR and related countries are correlated, but this correlation only exists in a particular period of the pandemic. Moreover, we plot the changing of topics in each country and region from 22 January 2020 to 5 June 2020, figuring out the main differences between GR and related countries.

scholarly journals Citation Analysis Shows Promise as an Effective Tool for Monograph Collection Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Scott Marsalis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Local Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Us

A Review of: Enger, K. B. (2009). Using citation analysis to develop core book collections in academic libraries. Library & Information Science Research, 31(2), 107-112. Objective – To test whether acquiring books written by authors of highly cited journal articles is an effective method for building a collection in the social sciences. Design – Comparison Study. Setting – Academic library at a public university in the US. Subjects – A total of 1,359 book titles, selected by traditional means (n=1,267) or based on citation analysis (n=92). Methods – The researchers identified highly-ranked authors, defined as the most frequently cited authors publishing in journals with an impact factor greater than one, with no more than six journals in any category, using 1999 ISI data. They included authors in the categories Business, Anthropology, Criminology & Penology, Education & Education Research, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, and General Social Sciences. The Books in Print bibliographic tool was searched to identify monographs published by these authors, and any titles not already owned were purchased. All books in the study were available to patrons by Fall 2005. The researchers collected circulation data in Spring 2007, and used it to compare titles acquired by this method with titles selected by traditional means. Main Results – Overall, books selected by traditional methods circulated more than those selected by citation analysis, with differences significant at the .001 level. However, at the subject category level, there was no significant difference at the .05 level. Most books selected by the test method circulated one to two times. Conclusion – Citation analysis can be an effective method for building a relevant book collection, and may be especially effective for identifying works relevant to a discipline beyond local context.

scholarly journals Rankings Season is Here

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

The major international rankings of higher education have appeared in recent months. The ranking is an inevitable result of the massification and commercialization of higher education worldwide. Ranking presumes a zero-sum game, but in reality, improvement is taking place everywhere. The current rankings are largely measured by research productivity, and they are advantageous for major English-speaking countries. Each ranking use different measures, and also changes over time. The user must be aware of the uses and problems of rankings.

scholarly journals State Boards of Education: Lesser Known Policy Actors

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Young ◽  
Bryan A. VanGronigen ◽  
Amy Luelle Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Boards Of Education ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
Over Time

Few scholars have engaged in close examinations of state boards of education (SBOEs), their make-up, or the broader implications of their influence over time. SBOE membership, authority, and impact differ significantly across the 50 states. This article reports findings from an exploratory study of three SBOEs and their role as policy actors. Thinking about SBOEs as policy actors focuses attention not only on the power, authority, and policy-making functions of SBOEs, but also on the individuals who serve on SBOEs, their actions, and the discourses constructed through the performance of their policy work.

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