ORCID
"ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities ensuring that your work is recognized." https://orcid.org/
citation graph
"In information science and bibliometrics, a citation graph (or citation network) is a directed graph in which each vertex represents a document and in which each edge represents a citation from the current publication to another." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_graph
infrastructure space
Could a government-owned and funded infrastructure be a solution here?
that is not resident in our community
I am surprised by this observation. If anyone, academia should be the first ones to have inside knowledge of how this works.
SPARC
"SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education." https://sparcopen.org/who-we-are/
making the development of community-owned infrastructure a priority
This should be very possible if there is a collective commitment from academic institutions to move in that direction, and to create structural changes that rewards publications in community-owned journals. After all, I think no one knows better than academia what product they want to build.
e essentially symbolic function of publishers, which is to allocate academic capital
What everything comes down to: the current structure for career advancement in academia.
Open Access agreements such as SCOAP3 (http://scoap3.org/), are likely to make the field less profitable and thus less interesting for commercial publishers
Evidence of research benefiting from Open Access? Would agreements like this between the researchers be the path for breaking the power of big publishers?
What is striking for both domains is the drop, since the advent of the digital era in the in the mid-1990s, in the proportion of papers, journals and citations that are published/received by journals from publishers other than the five major publishers.
Would the emergence of electronic platforms for journal publishing be a contribution factor for this concentration? People find more convenient to access online, and if the other publishers do not follow, they may fall behind.
One limitation of this source of data is that it does not index all of the world’s scientific periodicals but only those indexed in the WoS, which meet certain quality criteria such as peer review and which are the most cited in their respective disciplines. Hence, this analysis is not based on the entire scientific publication ecosystem but, rather, on the subset of periodicals that are most cited and most visible internationally.
Which should be sufficient since the oligopoly is for certain concentrated on these journals that are "most visible internationally"
f regional nodes should be strong enough to face the nodes of the OECD countries, not in a confrontational manner, but rather in a collaborative manner, and with better chances for balanced partnerships.
I like this theory. I wonder, however, how this will behave in a world where there is an abismal gap in research funding between OECD countries and developing countries... not that money = quality, but it is for sure a key component.
he invisible hand of markets is supposed to work like Newton’s law of universal attraction, and network rules trump any other form of social analysis.
I love this paragraph!
. By playing the excellence game in the same playground as large commercial publishers, SciELO increasingly finds itself threatened by direct competition. This trend could signal the beginning of a pernicious process: one could imagine that Latin American countries, with great expense and effort, would work toward improving their journals, only to discover that successful journals get captured by large commercial publishers.
This would be very sad. This is why not only the issue of access needs to be addressed, but also the core issue of how science is being evaluated. Maybe it will take a huge social movement within academia to make this happen....
The result was that developing countries could never achieve a sufficient degree of publishing autonomy to define national research priorities and questions.
Can I call this "knowledge imperialism"?
creates a particular form of scarcity
an artificial scarcity...
esearchers should behave as individual intellectual entrepreneurs in the context of the newly globalized market of facts, concepts and theories that characterizes the new ‘invisible college’ of science.
I think this is counter-intuitive to any form of knowledge, unless you want to put patents or copyright on everything. It does not make sense also because you HAVE TO base your research in previous researches, it is fundamental to science.
local researchers tend to focus on research areas privileged by rich countries
This is sad, even more considering the funding for their research is probably coming from the underfunded governments in the South as well.
altmetrics.
"In scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics are non-traditional bibliometrics proposed as an alternative or complement to more traditional citation impact metrics, such as impact factor and h-index. The term altmetrics was proposed in 2010, as a generalization of article level metrics, and has its roots in the #altmetrics hashtag. Although altmetrics are often thought of as metrics about articles, they can be applied to people, journals, books, data sets, presentations, videos, source code repositories, web pages, etc. Altmetrics use public APIs across platforms to gather data with open scripts and algorithms. Altmetrics did not originally cover citation counts, but calculate scholar impact based on diverse online research output, such as social media, online news media, online reference managers and so on. It demonstrates both the impact and the detailed composition of the impact. Altmetrics could be applied to research filter, promotion and tenure dossiers, grant applications and for ranking newly-published articles in academic search engines."
ortuguese content was accessed by only a fraction more than the Englishcontent (in both cases, students were responsible for60% of all responses). Spanishcontent was accessed by a larger proportion of students (65%). In both portals, Englishcontent was accessed most by university employees than any other group, again consis-tent with the hypothesis that students access content in their native language, while staffare the group that makes the most use of English-language content
There is also a possibility that those who speak Portuguese but not Spanish would access the content in English and vice-versa, because they are more comfortable with English. As a native Portuguese speaker with English as second language (which is probably the case for most Brazilians because English is taught at regular schools, but not Spanish), I would rather read an article in English than Spanish. Still Latin Americans, but accessing the content in English.
serendipitous
"occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way."
hospitals and clinics.
The fact that hospitals and clinics can benefit from these articles is a very important finding and immense contribution to the community. This is a sector of society that , for some reason, I did not think of when we talked about "public".
Air quality became a theme in local Flemish elections, which were held in mid-October.
Citizen science helping social change. Or at least set the political agenda.
Some research leaders are looking to citizen science to foster more inquisitiveness in the ‘post-truth’ era, in which emotional appeals often seem to win out against fact-based arguments.
That is great. Let's hope it works.
“It needs to be not just bottom-up — it needs also to be accepted as some kind of official data stream.”
Issue of legitimacy - there needs to be some expert overseeing citizen science to legitimize it.
how community science can provide opportunities for people who often do not have a voice in environmental decision-making to use science to document otherwise hidden or contentious environmental problems.
Is it because in this case the science becomes more "practical" and with real tangible consequences for those involved?
typically do not yield the community-development and personal-empow-erment outcomes that have the power to impact social change (Calabrese Barton, 2012)
I wonder how many students chose science as a career after these experiences, or entered other community-based projects after school as a result of this participation? Wouldn't that be part of "personal-empowerement"?
Teachers in the program reported an increase in students’ tech-nological, observational, measurement, and collaborative group skills, as well as learning new environmental science concepts. Student assessments revealed that GLOBE students scored higher in their knowledge of sampling, measurement, and data interpretation than students who had not been exposed to GLOBE. Perhaps more important, GLOBE students tended to make more science-based inferences about the natural world than non-GLOBE students
Easier to measure the improvements in this category, as teachers can evaluate students' knowledge.
top 10% of contributors responsible for almost 80% of total classifications
The "main" crowd is not so big then....
unpaid volunteers who are driven by intrinsic or social motivations may indeed enable crowd sci-ence organizers to perform research that would strain or exceed most budgets if performed on a paid basis.” They estimate that these seven projects yielded about US$1.5 million worth of data (paid at US$12.00 per hour) over their first 180 days of life. And many of these data points are contributing to scientific discoveries. For example, Zooniverse projects have already yielded more than 50 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from galaxies to oceans (Smith et al., 2013)
A new "sharing economy" for science ?
Galaxy Zoo
This is really fascinating. If you like Astronomy, take a look at https://www.zooniverse.org/
Public La
Their website is very interesting, worth a look. Specially the "ask a question" session.
Lab
Shannon Dosemagen is Executive Director of this Lab.
FutureScenarios:ExamplesofPotentialImpactsFromEPA’sSupportofCitizenScienceUse
This is very illutrative, helps understand the application of the citizen science.
design
Important the citizens also participate in elaborating a strategy that works for them, this is fundamental to get people involved.
institutional work transparent
This is a very important aspect, as with citizens participating chances are corporate influence will be challenged when citizens see it happening. I hope.
where regulations already allow for public participation and where the Agency lacks regulatory or enforcement too
Does that mean relying on citizens to come up with regultations and help enforce them?
changed
Examples? Does environmental activism, or organizations like Greenpeace fit this category?
Anchor Institution Work
What if the institution faces difficult and can no longer be the anchor? Will the community be ready to survive by themselves?
Syracuse University also is running an Early College High School that scaled up from 85 students in 2010 to 450 in 2012
that is impressive!
Little Free Libraries
I've seen some of these in Vancouver
African American residents of Syracuse
another example of who
bringing together school-children (in classes that varied from elementary to high school)
a concrete example of "who": school-children
601 Tully Street in Syracuse
It seems the university has pulled support and this has shut down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjsR3lqH_y4
https://www.syracuse.com/su-news/index.ssf/2015/05/after_years_of_losing_money_sy.html
He titled the six works on three trestles A Love Letter to Syracuse. Powers (2010)
For those who are curious:
University Hill, high above the city center
sounds familiar?
chasms
a profound difference between people, viewpoints, feelings, etc.
Humane Metrics Initiative (HuMetricsHSS; https://humetricshss.org/about/),
very interesting initiative. I think it is very necessary line of thinking, particularly in social sciences. But it may be caught up in the discussion of "whose values are we talking about?"
policy briefs
I am surprised these kind of public output is not currently part of metrics, since this is clearly a public contribution. It should also be quite easy to quantify.
political leadership.
Similar argument as Carneys' article about engagement
that environmental goals are achievable at the same time as economic and social goals.
One has to consider the differences between the economies of each country. Canadian economy is resource-heavy, and other countries'economies may not depend too much on the bitumen like we do. I am not sure if this analysis really proves his point.
subsumed
include or absorb (something) in something else.
creating evidence to support a policy decision already made
Very good point. I am under the impression this is a common practice in majority of government decisions nowadays.
promotions
This can be a slipery slope, researchers may start only doing research that has direct impact in policy, and other important research that does not have direct impact may be underfunded.
responsibilities
This is a good point. More often than not academia is isolated inside the univeristy environment and do not see themselves as part of a bigger picture or as influencers. I think it is an issue of mindset inside universities. It reminds me of an essay from Noam Chomsky on the "responsability of the Intellectuals": https://chomsky.info/19670223/
Combine facts with emotional appeals
I think academia definetly lacks incentive for students and faculty to develop these skills in research....
knowledge brokers
From wikipedia: "A knowledge broker is an intermediary (an organization or a person), that aims to develop relationships and networks with, among, and between producers and users of knowledge by providing linkages, knowledge sources, and in some cases knowledge itself, (e.g. technical know-how, market insights, research evidence) to organizations in its network.
While the exact role and function of knowledge brokers are conceptualized and operationalized differently in various sectors and settings, a key feature appears to be the facilitation of knowledge exchange or sharing between and among various stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, and policy makers."
Are think-tanks the ones acting knowledge broker in politics these days?
engage
Maybe the university should start to help scientific communities to build the skills to engage with policy makers more effectively?
Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.
This statement is questionable. I think there is little difference between "authorities" and "experts". It is common understanding that academia is where the "experts" are and therefore the "authority" in science. If a research is not validated inside academia, I think it will be rejected most of the time.
A clairvoyance gap with adversary nations is announced, and the Central Intelligence Agency, under Congressional prodding, spends tax money to find out whether submarines in the ocean depths can be located by thinking hard at them.
I was curious about this statement of CIA looking into clairvoyance, and found that CIA in the 80's did a bit of research on clairvoyance to try prove if it is effective or not: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00792R000701020003-5.pdf