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Congratulations to Geoff Krause (IDPhD) and Rebecca Marjoram (MI), 2024 Coalition Publica scholarship recipients!
Geoff Krause is an Interdisciplinary PhD student based in the Department of Information Science. He was awarded funding for his project “Defining the scope of academic journals through computational text analysis”. His project aims to propose measures of the scope of academic journals and to explore the relationship between the scope and other journal characteristics such as the field, the type of publisher, the publishing model, age, and Impact Factor.
Rebecca Marjoram, Master of Information student, was awarded the scholarship for her thesis entitled “Privilege in publishing: Investigating the impact of scientific reputation and sociodemographic factors on peer review outcomes”. Her project asks: If you’re a researcher who has been publishing in your field for years, you have a high number of citations, and loads of publications to your name, do you really need to fit the scope of a journal to publish in it? Or do you get to lead the discourse of the community? Those are some of the questions this project seeks to answer. We’re going to determine the scope of the top journals across 174 scientific sub-fields and see what impact academic reputation and other sociodemographic factors have (e.g. Inferred gender, inferred ethnicity) on the need for authors to fit the scope of a journal in order to be accepted for publication.
Coalition Publica is a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project which supports the social sciences and humanities journal community in the transition towards sustainable open access. Their mission is to help develop and coordinate an open and sustainable national infrastructure supporting research dissemination and digital scholarly publishing in Canada. They are proud to support students at the Masters and PhD levels to apply digital humanities methods to Coalition Publica’s textual corpus or to study the scholarly communication ecosystem.
Read the full announcement here. Learn more about Coalition Publica, a partnership between Érudit and the Public Knowledge Project here.
Read more about Geoff and Rebecca at their profiles here.
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Rémi Toupin and Philippe Mongeon are one of 30 new projects to receive funding awards from the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) Seed Fund. Their project, entitled, ‘Aligning scholarly and public understanding of ocean knowledge: An assessment based on the UN Second World Ocean Assessment Report’aims to map oceans research synthesized in the UN Second World Ocean Assessment Report, an exhaustive corpus of oceans knowledge. Specifically, they seek to identify scholarly outputs and map the research areas and scientific actors associated with topics and issues in ocean science, and measure attention to research areas from scholarly and non-scholarly audiences and stakeholders. We will assess how attention to research about the oceans is distributed across scholarly communities, policy, news media, and social media. Discrepancies of attention to research areas in relation to social and topical dynamics will be exposed, such as whether certain topics are discussed more because they are deemed more attractive by the media, leveraged by policymakers towards certain ends, or due to imbalance of attention resources in research clusters. This will propel tactical responses to knowledge and capacity-building gaps and key areas of oceans research, the mobilization of resources and knowledge production where it is most needed, and lay the groundwork for more effectively bridging the science-policy-public interface.
The OFI Seed Fund provides financial support and expertise for ocean-related projects that demonstrate a high potential to grow into larger externally funded research projects or to deliver their impact through commercialization.
Learn more about other Dalhousie projects funded by the OFI Seed Fund.
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The 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, 2023, was held September 27-29, 2023 in Leiden, The Netherlands. The 2023 edition focused on improving scholarly evaluation practices in the light of cultural change. Several members of the QSSLab also attended the fifth CWTS Scientometrics Summer School before the conference.
The conference program included several presentations and posters by the Quantitative Science Studies Lab.
Philippe Mongeon and Maddie Hare presented the paper “Do you cite what you tweet? Investigating the relationship between tweeting and citing research articles”. Find the preprint here.
Rémi Toupin presented his work “Public attention to research on Twitter through storytelling: making a narrative out of tweets to a scientific article”.
Geoff Krause presented the poster “Measuring Data Re-Use Through Dataset Citations in OpenAlex”. Preprint available here.
Marc-André Simard presented the paper “Worldwide trends in brain research: A bibliometric analysis”.
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Jérémie is a PhD student in Science, Technology and Society at Université du Québec à Montréal, and a member of the Canada Research Chair in Applied Epistemology. He graduated from the Université de Sherbrooke with a bachelor and master’s degree in philosophy. Science funding, expert organizations and academic software development are some of the topics he studies using methods borrowed from social network analysis and natural language processing. In his spare time, Jérémie takes care of two exceptional canine companions and enjoy climbing rocks.
During his visit to the QSS Lab, Jérémie will contribute to the ongoing project regarding to the role of journals in structuring knowledge.
Stay up to date on collaborative projects between Jérémie and the QSSLab here.
Adrián Díaz-Faes is a visiting researcher with the QSSLab during August and September. Adrián is a social scientist interested in understanding collaboration and knowledge co-creation processes in science and innovation. His research brings together theoretical and empirical insights from quantitative science studies, social networks, and innovation studies.
Adrián is a Research Fellow at INGENIO, a joint research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Technical University of Valencia (UPV) where he leads the Spanish R&D funded project titled “SciCoMetrics”, studying science-society interactions captured in news and social media to develop a novel taxonomy of science communication metrics.
Stay up to date on collaborative projects between Adrián and the QSSLab here.