Navigating science using citation networks - Carl T. Bergstrom

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Big Scholarly Data Workshop. Microsoft Conference Center. July 10th 2015. Navigating science using citation networks. Ca
Navigating science using  citation networks Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West University of Washington

Big Scholarly Data Workshop  Microsoft Conference Center  July 10th 2015

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Exponentially increasing literature rescholarly literature

Robert Aboukhalil (2014)

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How do we sort through the onslaught of papers and find the ones we actually need to read?

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The journal browsing model is broken, and in its place we increasingly rely on a single tool…

•  Which runs an unknown proprietary algorithm •  On an unspecified corpus •  With no potential for customization •  Or experimentation •  Or community development

There’s no guarantee it is going to stay around…

And there’s no guarantee that big publishing wants to let it stay around.

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The problem of finding what papers we need to be reading is much too important to leave to a Google 20% time project with an uncertain future.  

So what do we do ?

We must take ownership of own scholarly output

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Citation network

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No legal obstacle

Citation network

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But this is an insanely big job!  >100 million papers > 1 billion citations  Typing at 100 words a minute, 24 hours a day, 365 days a week, it would take me around 100 years to type the reference for each paper. If I could enter 10 citations a minute, it would take me another 300 years to enter the full citation list.

Assemble citation networks using data from many sources

The Eigenfactor Algorithm

Study, and publicize, the  economics of journal subscriptions

Eigenfactor.org

Study, and publicize, the economic effectiveness of open access publishing

Eigenfactor.org

The map equation

Mapequation.org

good maps simplify  and highlight relevant structures

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Rosvall and Bergstrom (2011)  PLoS One

Rosvall and Bergstrom (2008) PNAS

“coverage”

Impact factor Althouse et al (2009) JASIST

Rosvall and Bergstrom (2011)  PLoS One

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percentage of women

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What gender disparities remain  in scholarly publishing?

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West et al. 2013 PLoS One

Rosvall and Bergstrom (2010)  PLoS One

Vilhena et al. (2014)

Scholarly article recommendation as a service

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Eigenfactor Recommendation Lab A-B testing, API for results, algorithm plug-in

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