Analyzing the network structure and gender differences of the “NKOS community”
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The document analyzes the network structure and gender differences within the nkos community, revealing a predominance of male authors (62%) over female authors (38%) among the 256 distinct authors studied. Various metrics were used to assess collaboration behaviors and identified nine clusters, with evidence of gender assortativity in collaboration. Limitations noted include the focus solely on research presentations and the absence of influential papers in the dataset, suggesting avenues for future research.
Analyzing the network structure and gender differences of the “NKOS community”
- 1. Analyzing the network structure and gender differences of the “NKOS community” Philipp Mayr GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences 2018-09-13, Porto, Portugal https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-018-0243-0 @article{karimi2018, title = {Analyzing the network structure and gender differences among the members of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.04225}, doi = {10.1007/s00799-018-0243-0}, journal = {International Journal on Digital Libraries}, author = {Karimi, Fariba and Mayr, Philipp and Momeni, Fakhri}, year = {2018}}
- 2. Motivation • European NKOS network has held a long- running series of annual workshops at ECDL & TPDL • NKOS research output has never been subject to analysis – Esp. the (informal) research output of the NKOS community • Most workshop output has never published as formal publications – Except 4 special issues (2* J. Dig. Inf., New Rev. Hypermed. Multimed, Int. J. Dig. Libr.) 2 http://hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/kos/nkos/ http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/
- 3. NKOS workshop bibliography • We checked all workshop published agendas and compiled a bibliography of past NKOS workshops (2000-2016) • Manual author name disambiguation of each author entries • The bibliographic data as bibtex files are available 3 https://github.com/PhilippMayr/NKOS-bibliography
- 4. Dataset & Analysis • First analysis for the 15th NKOS workshop at TPDL 2016 (no US workshops), see workshop paper http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1676/paper1.pdf – For the follow-up IJDL paper we added all US NKOS workshops and other scattered events • Dataset for the paper includes: 123 papers with a sum of 256 distinct authors (just co-authored papers) • We describe the network with standard network analytic measures – Global properties – Centrality of the authors – Gender differences in collaboration behavior 4 The dataset
- 5. Results 5 - 44 isolated components - Largest connected component (107 nodes) - Men = purple, women = orange
- 6. Results 6 Largest component: - Louvain clustering method identified 9 clusters - Size of the nodes represent the degree - Majority of European researchers - Members of a cluster are often from the same institution / geographic proximity
- 7. Gender differences • 97 (38%) women and 157 (62%) men and 2 unidentified names • 46 women and 59 men in the largest component • Homophily: – gender assortativity in this community is 0.1 “there is a positive tendency among scholars in this community to collaborate with the same gender” – homophily among women is higher than the homophily among men in this network (see Slide 5) 7
- 8. Conclusions • Limited dataset: – Focus on research paper presentations (organization activity not covered) – Influencial papers and standards are missing – Bibliometric data is missing • Future work: – Complementing the dataset – Combining network and bibliometric measures 8
- 9. Thank you Contact: Dr Philipp Mayr GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Germany Email: philipp.mayr@gesis.org Twitter: @philipp_mayr 9 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-018-0243-0Special thanks go to my co-authors: Fariba Karimi and Fakhri Momeni