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Gatekeeper: Quantifying the Impacts of Service to the Scientific Community

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Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge (TPDL 2019)

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Academic scholars have several duties, including teaching, research, and service to the community and society. While a scholar’s research impacts can be reasonably measured and tracked via citation analysis in existing digital libraries, to our best knowledge, there has been no system that systematically collects and quantifies a scholar’s impacts of service to the scientific community. In particular, we are interested in measuring scholars’ impacts as “gatekeepers,” who play a key role in the spread of research findings and new knowledge via the accept/reject decisions of research articles. In this work, toward this goal, we present a prototype digital library, Gatekeeper, that crawls, extracts, and quantifies the impacts of service based on one’s roles in the technical program committees of Computer Science conferences.

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    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-academic-graph/.

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    https://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.html.

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  1. The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA

    Spyke Krepshaw & Dongwon Lee

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  1. University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France

    Antoine Doucet

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Antoine Isaac

  3. Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Koraljka Golub

  4. OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

    Trond Aalberg

  5. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Adam Jatowt

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Krepshaw, S., Lee, D. (2019). Gatekeeper: Quantifying the Impacts of Service to the Scientific Community. In: Doucet, A., Isaac, A., Golub, K., Aalberg, T., Jatowt, A. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30760-8_11

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