#scientometrics

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Scientometrics is the field of study which concerns itself with measuring and analysing scientific literature. Scientometrics is a sub-field of bibliometrics. Major research issues include the measurement of the impact of research papers and academic journals, the understanding of scientific citations, and the use of such measurements in policy and management contexts. In practice there is a significant overlap between scientometrics and other scientific fields such as information systems, information science, science of science policy, sociology of science, and metascience.

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biology & culture & politics

"...'the entire body of modern science is an attempt to explain phenomena that cannot be experienced directly by human beings'. Metaphors and analogies, in turn, come laced with human stories and values, meaning that no discussion of scientific ideas -- this one included -- can be free of cultural bias." [Richard Lewontin, as cited/paraphrased in Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake]

science as an extension of a question+method as an extension of scientists who are humans and are caught up in humanity. Science as a non-political entity is a falsehood, to claim otherwise is naïve. The same phenomena is explained very differently by different people: referring to symbiosis, Jan Sapp (again, in Sheldrake's book) says "[it] behaves like a prism through which our own social values are often dispersed." in some works this is PAINFULLY obvious.

E.g. in Camazine's 1991 paper on self-organizing behavior in bees, Camazine prefaces with laying out the dominant theory on bee organization: the queen is the Leader who Controls where the workers go and what they do, her design for the colony a blueprint that is logically constructed from a central vantage point. The issue with this hypothesis is that worker bees would fill honeycomb with the "wrong thing" according to what we as humans assumed would be the "correct thing" (pollen adjacent to the brood area for easy access). Upon observing this, the assumption was that this was, indeed, doing something "incorrect", and that it was a behavioural aberration on the part of the workers, not the queen. Twofold reflections of the belief that the organisation was competent leader + incompetent workers , AND that further information that may challenge this belief was simply incorrect and not a reason to rethink things.

Camazine dismantles this, providing a more-sensible (if >30years old...) worker-organized system as a framework for bee behavioral scientists to work with. Read here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00172140

There is more like this. so much more. it rears its ugly head in complex systems in animal behavior, a LOT, often assuming central command where there is none. Whether the relationship between mycorrhizal fungi & their plants is cutthroat or generous is a prominent point of dispute: do the fungi and plants give generously and receive generously in return, or do the plants starve out fungi who aren't productive enough (...vice versa)? Did [x] really first evolve in the now-USA and migrate South, or is this an extension of uneven paleontological interest and dig sites (and education, and oppression,)? & so much more. the mechanisms of life are such that one scientist/political-cultural-angle/general-life-outlook will not suffice.

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Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences (JoALS) is a print and e-journal focused towards the rapid publication of Fundamental research papers on all areas of Advancements in Library Sciences.

All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its scope and research being done in the world, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.

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Accessing Altermetric Data: a quick how to

Dear fellow student, I hereby want to share an interesting way to get access to an extensive data set in the field of Altmetrics. Several well developed Altmetric data providers collect a variety of metrics, thereby covering a large part of social attention that papers receive. One of these

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Promotion of Scientific Work: Thesis Proposal

Promotion of scientific work via social media platforms and the development of supporting research indicators. (Tentative Title) We are looking for students that want to explore a research theme in the area of scientometrics, which is the study of measuring and analyzing science, technology and

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Promotion of Scientific Work: Thesis Proposal

Promotion of scientific work via social media platforms and the development of supporting research indicators. (Tentative Title) We are looking for students that want to explore a research theme in the area of scientometrics, which is the study of measuring and analyzing science, technology and

Check out the original post at https://francescolelli.info/thesis/promotion-of-scientific-work-thesis-proposal/

Title: Promotion of Scientific Work: Thesis Proposal

Categories: Thesis

Tags: bibliometric network, eCommerce, eMarketing, scientometrics, thesis proposal

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Top 20 Countries in Energy Research (per capita)

Below I list the top 20 countries and territories in the world, in terms of their scientific impact divided by population, in the field of Energy. Namely – normalized citations per capita – which reflects how many times more scientific citations people living in a given country receive on average, than average humans. For instance, the global leader, Singapore is 19 times more productive in energy research, than the world as a whole, if divided by the number of people.

The data for the citations is obtained from the most influential and comprehensive scientific database – Scopus – which includes over 22,000 active scientific journals and is used by such products, as the Times Higher Education ranking, SciMago Journal & Country rank, and Webometrics university ranking. The aggregated data for the years 2015-2017 has been used.

1. Singapore - 19.1 2. Denmark - 14.1 3. Switzerland - 12.2 4. Sweden - 11.3 5. Hong Kong - 10.5 6. Australia - 10.0 7. Norway - 9.7 8. Brunei Darussalam - 8.7 9. Finland - 8.5 10. Iceland - 6.9 11. Qatar - 6.7 12. Netherlands - 6.0 13. Belgium - 5.6 14. Canada - 5.5 15. Luxembourg - 5.5 16. Ireland - 5.2 17. United Kingdom - 5.1 18. South Korea - 5.1 19. Portugal - 4.9 20. Slovenia - 4.6

You can find the normalized citations per capita for all the scientific fields, for all the 200 countries and territories studied here.

[noosphe-re]

Scientometrics is the study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation. Major research issues include the measurement of impact, reference sets of articles to investigate the impact of journals and institutes, understanding of scientific citations, mapping scientific fields and the production of indicators for use in policy and management contexts. In practice there is a significant overlap between scientometrics and other scientific fields such as bibliometrics, information systems, information science and science of science policy.

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