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Faculty Research Seminar Series:
"Mapping the Structure and Dynamics of Science" |
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1:00 PM-2:00 PM
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Wed, November 19, 2008 |
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Atkins Conference Room, 1202 SI North |
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Speakers: |
Katy Börner |
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Description: |
Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science and director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. In this talk, Borner will discuss how computational scientometrics utilizes terrabytes of scholarly data -- e.g., papers, patents, and grants -- to study the structure and evolution of science. Among others, this research aims to objectively characterize scholarly entities such as experts, institutions, grants, papers, journals, or research areas in terms of their productivity, interdisciplinarity, or relative speed. It also aims to compute emerging research, vital knowledge flows, or the impact of funding.
The first part of this talk presents an analytic study that examined the citation patterns among major U.S. research institutions to answer two questions: Does space still matter in the Internet age, i.e., does one still have to study and work at major research institutions in order to have access to high quality data and expertise and to produce high quality research, and does the Internet lead to more global citation patterns, i.e., more citation links between papers produced at geographically distant
research instructions?
The second part of the talk will discuss two other studies that used the very same dataset -- PNAS papers published between 1982-2001 -- to identify topic bursts as indicators for emerging research areas and to design a general process model that simulates the co-evolution of co-author and paper-citation networks.
The talk will conclude with a discussion of resources available at the Science of Science Cyberinfrastructure Portal.
To promote in-depth intellectual engagement during the seminar, guests are encouraged to read Börner's paper in advance.
You can also view a video recording of her talk (QuickTime).
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Sponsor: |
School of Information |
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Contact: |
JoAnne Kerr |
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jmkerr@umich.edu |
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