Social Network Analysis. Social Network Analysis. Designing next-generation platforms for evaluating scientific output: what scientists can learn from the social web | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA Traditional pre-publication peer review of scientific output is a slow, inefficient, and unreliable process. Efforts to replace or supplement traditional evaluation models with open evaluation platforms that leverage advances in information technology are slowly gaining traction, but remain in the early stages of design and implementation. Here I discuss a number of considerations relevant to the development of such platforms. I focus particular attention on three core elements that next-generation evaluation platforms should strive to emphasize, including (1) open and transparent access to accumulated evaluation data, (2) personalized and highly customizable performance metrics, and (3) appropriate short-term incentivization of the userbase.
Keywords: data sharing, open access, peer review, publishing, scientific evaluation Copyright © 2012 Yarkoni. Blog » Blog Archive » History matters. Exploratory search is an uncertain endeavor. Quite often, people don’t know exactly how to express their information need, and that need may evolve over time as information is discovered and understood. This is not news. When people search for information, they often run multiple queries to get at different aspects of the information need, to gain a better understanding of the collection, or to incorporate newly-found information into their searches. This too is not news.
The multiple queries that people run may well retrieve some of the same documents. Design goal: Help people plan future actions by understanding the present in the context of the past. Our recent work in Querium (see here and here) seeks to explore this space further by providing searchers with tools that reflect patterns of retrieval of specific documents within a search mission. Is a particular document central to a given information need? Histograms Filtering Query overview Tags: chi2012, ecir2012, HCIR, querium. London’s Social Cleansing. Unscrupulous landlords are forcing poorer tenants out of their London homes, freeing them up to rent out to visitors to the Olympics this summer, according to the housing charity Shelter. At the same time, the government’s cap on rent subsidies (Housing Benefits) for those out of work or on low incomes threaten to force less well-off tenants out of the capital.
Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales says that they will have to move people as far afield as Stoke-on-Trent if they are to meet their obligations to house the homeless. Fears of ‘social cleansing’ featured in the Mayoral election where Tory incumbent Boris Johnson made sure to distance himself from his own government’s policy to beat off the challenge from veteran left-winger Ken Livingstone.
Inner London, outer London (Newham in red); London, Stoke-on-Trent It is not hard to understand why prices are so steep. Housebuilding in the UK has failed to keep pace with demand. A Mile High Tower for London. Newgeography.com | Economic, demographic, and political commentary about places. By George Dyson | Response | 2011 Annual Question | Edge. Life as Captured in Charts and Graphs. Mapping Academic Tweets. Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twitter data (especially with location information) but as an academic seeking to publish in many of the journals that feature in people’s tweets I was prepared to make an exception when producing these maps. The data come from a cool service called Altmetric. I think mapping Twitter’s engagement with the academic literature is important as it echos the map below and provides another example of the dominance of researchers (both in terms of access and production) from a few countries in the academic literature.
You can see how the “hotspots” of collaboration allign with the hotspots of tweets below. One thing academics strive for is “impact”. This can mean many things, but one often applied criterion is the number of people outside of your immediate academic community that read your work. About the data from Altmetric: