Visibility and visualisation of scholarly publications online: Erdős and beyond
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The document discusses the visibility and visualization of scholarly publications, focusing on the significance of community engagement in academia through tools like Google Scholar and Academia.edu. It highlights the importance of co-authorship, citation metrics, and the cultivation of communities of practice. Additionally, it touches upon notable figures in mathematics and computer science, including Paul Erdős and Alan Turing, and emphasizes the need for effective online resources for researchers.
![Research
student advice
• “... at the end of my [PhD] first year [I] had nothing
to show as research results.”
• Supervised by David Wheeler at Cambridge:
“Instead of fixing where you will start, decide where you
want to get to and work out how to get there.”
• Supervisor of Zhiming Liu at Leicester: Years later, I
often tried to assure my own PhD students that an
apparently wasted first year was necessary to create
the state of mind from which to outline work, set goals
and decide how they would be achieved.”
Digital Republic by
Mathai Joseph, 2013](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/bcu2014-140420123356-phpapp01/85/Visibility-and-visualisation-of-scholarly-publications-online-Erdos-and-beyond-45-320.jpg)
Visibility and visualisation of scholarly publications online: Erdős and beyond
- 1. Visibility and visualisation of scholarly publications online: Erdős and beyond Prof. Jonathan P. Bowen Birmingham City University Museophile Limited, UK www.jpbowen.com
- 2. Introduction • Mathematics, art, engineering, computer science, software engineering, museum informatics • Academia: Imperial, Oxford, Reading, LSBU • Visitor: UNU-IIST, KCL, Brunel, Westminster, Waikato (New Zealand, 2011), Pratt Institute (New York, USA, 2012) • Industry: Logica, Silicon Graphics, Altran Praxis • Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA London conference, 8–10 July 2014)
- 3. Overview • Communities • Visualization • Publications • Co-authorship • Citations • Online resources – Google Scholar – Microsoft Academic Search – Academia.edu
- 4. Patterns “The way is long if one follows precepts, but short ... If one follows patterns.” – Seneca (c.4 BC – AD 65)
- 5. Community of Practice • CoP: collection of people developing domain knowledge • Elements: –Domain, common interest –Community, willing to engage together –Practice, developing new knowledge • A brief introduction by Etienne Wenger, 2006: www.ewenger.com/theory
- 6. Cultivating a CoP Different levels of participation: • Coordinator(s) • Active members • Peripheral members • Outsiders
- 7. Bow tie effect Visualization Example – two communities (arts and science) Facebook TouchGraph connections
- 8. Garden party, OUCL, Keble Road, Oxford, July 1986 Oxford University Computing Laboratory Tony Hoare Ali Abdallah Jane & Alice BowenJonathan Bowen
- 9. Theories of Programming and Formal Methods Shanghai, China, 1–3 September 2013 Festschrift for He Jifeng, Shanghai, China Jonathan Bowen Zhiming Liu
- 10. Google First webserver, 1999 – already in a museum! Technology
- 12. Google Scholar • http://scholar.google.com – publications & citations • h-index (top h publications with h or more citations) • i10-index (at least 10 citations)
- 13. h-index Top h publications with h or more citations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
- 14. h-index Top cited h papers with h or more citations.
- 15. i10-index Papers with 10 (or n) or more citations.
- 16. Microsoft Academic Search • http://academic.research.microsoft.com • Publications, citations, h-index • g-index (top g with a total of at least g2 citations)
- 17. g-index Top g with a total of at least g2 citations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-index
- 18. g-index Top cited g papers with a total of at least g2 citations.
- 19. Top 30 co- authors as measured by the number of publications Academic Search co-author graph
- 20. Academic Search citation graph • Top 34 authors by number of citations
- 21. coauthors / citingauthors Co-authors and citing authors.
- 22. Supervisors and students Alonzo Church and Alan Turing Academic Search genealogy graph See also Mathematics Genealogy website
- 23. Alan Turing citations Google Scholar Small number of influential papers – c. 5 citations per day – few co-authors
- 24. Turing’stop10papersGoogle Scholar Theoretical computer science Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics 1952 1948
- 25. Turing’s Worlds (centenary event) Department of Continuing Education University of Oxford, 23–24 June 2012
- 26. Happy Birthday Alan Turing! (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954)
- 27. Alan Turing – 2014 • 60th anniversary of Turing’s death – 7 June 2014. • Talk at BCS, London, on Thursday 5 June 2014. www.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/52335 • See also Gresham College talk (2013): www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/alan- turing-the-founder-of-computer-science
- 28. The Turing Guide • Book due in 2015 • To be published by Oxford University Press • Edited by Jonathan Bowen, Jack Copeland, Mark Sprevak, and Robin Wilson • c.40 chapters by contributors largely from Oxford, Cambridge, Bletchley Park meetings
- 30. The Erdős number • Paul Erdős (1913–1996) – Hungarian mathematician – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős – Erdős number 0 – Co-authored over 1,000 publications • 511 co-authors – Erdős number 1 – Co-authors of Erdős co-authors • Erdős number 2 • Etc.
- 31. ErdosNumber Relationship of an author with Paul Erdos.
- 33. Academia.edu • Academic networking website • Cf. LinkedIn (professional networking) • Includes affiliation to university and department • Allows easy addition of books, papers, answers, talks, teaching documents, research interests, CV, status updates, websites, etc. • Add keywords for publication searching • Monitoring of access statistics
- 34. Academia.edu home page E.g., bcu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen
- 36. Academia.edu document accesses Last 30 days
- 37. Academia.edu top documents Last 30 days
- 38. Academia.edu country accesses Last 30 days
- 40. Non-free citations websites • E.g., Web of Knowledge • Thomson Reuters: http://wokinfo.com • UK: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk • OK if your university subscribes • But not all do ...
- 41. Free publications websites • ACM Digital Library – CS professional body • BibSonomy – social bookmark and publication sharing system • CiteSeerX – publications database • DBLP – CS bibliography, individual effort • Issuu – personal documents (PDF, ...) • Mendeley – reference manager, academic social network • ResearchGate – for scientists, make your work visible, 1.7 million members • Researchr – find, collect, share, review scientific publications
- 42. Summary “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) • Plethora of sites • Check you profile on a selection • Choose one or two effective ones
- 43. Research “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein (1879–1955) Bust in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Blackboard in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (16 May 1931)
- 44. but ... Administratium! – William DeBuvitz, The Physics Teacher, 1989. • Heaviest element • Only neutrons, inert • Impedes reactions • 3-year half-life, then reorganisation • Concentrates in large organisations • Toxic at any level of concentration
- 45. Research student advice • “... at the end of my [PhD] first year [I] had nothing to show as research results.” • Supervised by David Wheeler at Cambridge: “Instead of fixing where you will start, decide where you want to get to and work out how to get there.” • Supervisor of Zhiming Liu at Leicester: Years later, I often tried to assure my own PhD students that an apparently wasted first year was necessary to create the state of mind from which to outline work, set goals and decide how they would be achieved.” Digital Republic by Mathai Joseph, 2013
- 46. Conclusion Prof. Jonathan Bowen (FBCS, FRSA) jonathan.bowen@bcu.ac.uk www.jpbowen.com • Google Scholar – visibility • Academia.edu – virtual community • Academic Search – visualisation