Projects

A critical review of measures of research novelty

In this project, we compare the different research novelty measures that have been proposed in the literature by applying them to the same set of publications, and to a set of 1200 funding applications submitted for the Villum Experiment and scored by reviewers for their originality.

Citizen science

Citizen science (CS) is related to the general public engagement in the scientific research process in which the citizens participate in different ways. This project aims to gain a better understanding of the nature and outcomes of CS projects.

Digging into archives

This work is a quantitative exploration of archival scholarship that aims to describe the social and topical structure of the field, it’s evolution, and it’s relationship with other disciplines.

Fostering novelty and risk taking in research

The Villum Experiment is a funding program aimed at supporting bold, risky, and truly innovative research ideas that are unlikely to be supported by traditional funding sources. This project aims to provide empirical evidence of the effectiveness of the program by answering the following research questions:

Gender Homophily in Citations

The term “gender homophily” in citations describes an effect whereby the citer disproportionately cites references from authors who are of the same gender. One of the explanations for men’s disproportionate preference for citing men is the Matilda effect—a systematic under-recognition of women’s contribution to science.

Global uptake of Open Access

The purpose of this paper is to provide a global picture of the current state of OA adoption by countries, using two indicators: publications in OA and references to articles in OA.

Mapping the Canadian LIS research landscape

The main goal of this project is to build a tool to map and explore the research output of the eight ALA-accredited information schools in Canada, with a focus of the specicific contribution of schools in shaping the Canadian LIS research landscape.

Reducing socio-demographic disparities in funding with double-blind peer-review

This paper analyses three years (2017-2019) of application and review data from the Villum Experiment to analyze how the applicants are distributed by past performance, gender, age, professional status, and institutional affiliations, and how these distributions compare to the overall Danish research population.

Social justice in LIS research

Main goal This project will identify scholarly work that mentions social justice issues and identify trends in the prevalence of these mentions in the literature. Research questions Some of the questions will be:

The cost of Open Access under the acamemic publishing oligopoly

This study focuses on the cost and profit of OA publishing since 2010 by analyzing the publishing market as well as article processing charges for gold and hybrid open access journal publications.

The role of journals in shaping knowledge and communitities

This project investigates how knowledge communities are developed and delineated through scholarly journals. The concept of journal scope is brought to the forefront and measured with a novel indicator that enables to compare the social and topical structures of different journals and seek explanations for the observed differences.

The socio-topical landscape of shark research and its visibility in the media

The goal of this research collaboration between the QSS lab and the Environmental Information Use and Influence (EIUI) group is to contribute to the discussion by providing an empirical basis for assessing the unequal representation and attention that different bodies of literature receive in social media specifically.

The use of “golden tickets” in funding peer-review

In this project hosted by the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (CFA) we use game theory to investigate the use of the golden ticket by reviewers and its effect on the review outcome of the last three iterations (2017-2019) of the Villum Experiment.