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Mapping The Evolution of Scientific Community Structures in Time

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Theresa Velden,

Carl LagozeAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 1039 - 1044

https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2742020

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The increasing online availability of scholarly corpora promises unprecedented opportunities for visualizing and studying scholarly communities. We seek to leverage this with a mixed-method approach that integrates network analysis of features of the online corpora with ethnographic studies of the communities that produce them. In our development of tools and visualizations we seek to support the going back and forth between views of community structures and the perceptions and research trajectories of individual researchers and research groups. We here present results from tracking the temporal evolution of community structures within a research specialty. We explore how the temporal evolution of these maps can be used to provide insights into the historical evolution of a field as well as extract more accurate snapshots of the community structures at a given point in time. We are currently conducting qualitative interviews with experts in this research specialty to assess the validity of the maps.

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Mapping The Evolution of Scientific Community Structures in Time
1. Information systems
  1. Information storage systems
    1. Storage architectures
      1. Storage network architectures

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WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2015

1602 pages

ISBN:9781450334730

DOI:10.1145/2740908

General Chairs:
Aldo Gangemi
National Research Council, Italy & Paris 13 University-CNRS, France
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Stefano Leonardi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Alessandro Panconesi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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Anderson LKieliszewski C(2018)Using Digital Trace Analytics to Understand and Enhance Scientific CollaborationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering10.1007/978-3-319-94229-2_19(195-205)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94229-2_19
Velden TYan SLagoze C(2017)Mapping the cognitive structure of astrophysics by infomap clustering of the citation network and topic affinity analysisScientometrics10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9111:2(1033-1051)Online publication date: 1-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11192-017-2299-9

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