Andrea Scharnhorst.2013. Measuring Science - Tracing the authors. Introduction into the VIVO SymposiumJanuary 18, 2013. DANS/eHumanities group KNAW

1. Data Archiving and Networked Services
Measuring Science – Tracing
the authors
Andrea Scharnhorst
Introduction into the VIVO Symposium
January 18, 2013
DANS/eHumanities group KNAW
DANS is an institute of KNAW and NWO

2. Overview
•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on
researchers
•Research information systems
•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape
•Experiments on NARCIS
– Analysis and Understanding
– Analysis and Interfaces
– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

3. Andrea Scharnhorst - CV
• Department of Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Degree “Diplom-
Physiker”, 1984
• PhD, at the ‘Philosophical Problems of Natural Sciences’ division, Philosophy
Department at the Humboldt University of Berlin, 1988
• Head of eResearch at DANS and scientific coordinator of the Computational
Humanities programme at the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – DANS=Data Archiving and Networked
Services Institute (DANS)

4. Overview
•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on
researchers
•Research information systems
•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape
•Experiments on NARCIS
– Analysis and Understanding
– Analysis and Interfaces
– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

5. Ref: Scharnhorst, Garfield, 2010, Tracing scientific influence, http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3525
Communication
Text Actors
words journals references … authors institutions countries
Productivity Disciplinary profiles
Bibliographic coupling
Co-word maps (Lotka) Performance
Citation networks
Semantic maps Impact
(Callon, Rip, Coauthorship (…..)
Co-citation networks
White) (…..) International
(Marshokova, Small/Griffith)
Citation environments collaboration
of journals (…..)
(Leydesdorff)
Key players, evaluation
Maps of science
(Boyack, Börner, Klavans;
Leydesdorff, Rafols)
Biographies, key player,
What is a topic? Individual vs group dynamics
What is a paradigm?
What are the hot areas and Core and periphery
What are fields and of knowledge exchange in
research fronts?
disciplines? a globalized economy
What are the knowledge flows?
Meaning of a citation, deeper understanding of knwoledge flows
Sentiment of citations Small, Thelwall, Boyack…

6. Hunting for the authors – creators of
innovation and heart of team science
Ref: A. Scharnhorst Wisemap Researchers http://app.wisemapping.com/c/maps/80173/public
Every database with authors has an authorID.
To issue cross-database authorID’s one need an institution.
Ref: P. Wouters, R. Costas. 2012. Users, narcissism and control – tracking the impact of
scholarly publications in the 21st century . SURF report
http://www.surf.nl/nl/publicaties/Documents/Users%20narcissism%20and%20control.pdf

7. Quantitative studies of science
- scientometrics, bibliometrics, informetrics
Persons – Organizations - Projects
Input Output
Processes of knowledge creation
Number of scientists Number of publications
Number of PhD students /citations
R&D expenditure Number of PhD students
Instruments Number of patents
….. …..
Education Libraries
Libraries Books
Books Journals
Data Information Archives
Archives Information Data
Information resources
provision storage

8. Niederlande
Renommierter Psychologe
gesteht Fälschungen

9. Overview
•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on
researchers
•Research information systems
•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape
•Experiments on NARCIS
– Analysis and Understanding
– Analysis and Interfaces
– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

10. ElectronicArchivingSYstem and NARCIS –
Core services (‘products’) of DANS
www.easy.dans.knaw.nl
DANS as non-proprietary information provider
contributes to transparence and accessibility
public funded research
www.narcis.nl

11. What is a Reseach Information System?
Ref: KG Jeffery 2008 History of CRIS
http://www.eurocris.org/Uploads/Web%20pages/historyCRIS/3HistoryofCRIS.ppt
See also: Nick Sheppard. "Learning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIS". July 2010, Ariadne Issue 64
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/wrn-repos-2010-05-rpt/

12. Researcher as innovators and
human capital asset for the
knowledge based economy.
http://eu-research.blogspot.com/2009/02/number-of-researchers-by-world-region.html

13. (Current) Research Information Systems in Europe – EuroCRIS
http://www.eurocris.org/Index.php?page=hometext&t=1

14. The Dutch situation – many players
Metis is very detailed, fed by admin (universities, KNAW)
but has a limited on-line interface.
CWTS is the ‘Scientific Observatory’ in NL for
Research Evaluation; but the databases are
not public.
NARCIS is the main national portal for those looking for information
about researchers and their work. OUR CASE

15. Overview
•Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on
researchers
•Research information systems
•NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape
•Experiments on NARCIS
– Analysis and Understanding
– Analysis and Interfaces
– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

16. From NOD to NARCIS
Ref: http://web.archive.org/web/20070226142224/http://www.onderzoekinformatie.nl/en/oi/nod/

17. Only use this slide to present a screenshot of an application.
As no style is applied, the screenshot can take up the whole
slide. For all other information please use the slide with
preset style!

18. 18137 records
47502
Links to
datasets in
EASY
2894
Harvesting publications from Dutch repositories

19. VISION: All research information under 19

20. Overview
• Andrea’s journey
• Scientometrics and the actors – call for databases on
researchers
• Research information systems
• NARCIS – the Portal into the Dutch Research Landscape
• Experiments on NARCIS
– Analysis and Understanding
– Analysis and Interfaces
– Analysis and Evaluation schemes

21. 265 professors with multiple
university affiliations that
interlink the Dutch universities to
one national network

22. Visual navigating through
collaboration
Size and composition of a
collection
Visual feedback for ‘water’
Visual analytics – burst of publications

23. Evaluation - Data matching
experiment
1462 professors 8378 professors
Testing automated techniques
to find publications and citations
for author outside the 1462
CWTS – ‘Golden Set’ NARCIS
Collaboration with Rodrigo Costas, Ed Noyens (both CWTS),
Linda Reijnhoudt, Katy Boerner (both DANS, KNAW)

24. Other works
References Wikipedia – UDC map
•http://scimaps.org/maps/map/design_v
•http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3769
Publications •http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0788
•http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/andrea-scharnhorst
Enhanced publications
/
•http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NhkD2OQSLNw
•ResearchID Web of Knowledge
•http://ep-books.ehumanities.nl/
•LinkedIn
•http://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=QcS8uh89nbUC&hl=
Interfaces
nl •http://www.drasticdata.nl/DDHome.
•http://www.authormapper.com/ php?m=514
search.aspx?q=Scharnhorst •https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datase
%20Andrea ts/id/easy-dataset:49791 - Please,
use the data, experiment yourself
[and cite publication and dataset]!
•http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3200

25. More references
• K. Börner, A. Scharnhorst (2009) Visual Conceptualizations and Models
of Science. Editorial for the special issue „Science of Science:
Conceptualizations and Models of Science“ Journal of Informetrics
3(3), 161-172, Preprint http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3562
• A. Scharnhorst, K. Börner, P. Van den Besselaar (eds) (2012) Models
of Science Dynamics – Encounters Between Complexity Theory and
Information Sciences. Springer, Understanding Complexity Series, 300
pages

26. eResearch DANS
Katy Börner
Indiana University
Frank van der Most Dirk Roorda Linda Reijnhoudt Visiting fellow DANS-KNAW
Rene van Horik NARCIS, Visualizations
Sustainability and Scientific careers and cultures Queries as annotations,
permanence, multi-media of data sharing, ACUMEN CLARIN, Circulation of
sources, APARSEN, NEDIMAH knowledge
Peter Doorn Christophe Guéret Albert Moroño Peñuela Ashkan Askpour
Semantic web, Semantic web, CEDAR History, information sciences, Olav ten Bosch
eHistory, Clarin, Dariah,
complex networks IISH Drastic data
Clariah
CEDAR CEDAR
Director of DANS
KSL
Cheng Goa, Krzysztof Suchecki, Almila Akdag
Leen Breure KNOWLEDGE SPACE LAB
Enhanced publications,
eHistory
Thank you for your attention!
For more information please contact
Andrea.scharnhorst@dans.knaw.nl