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Making scholarly publications accessible online: Erdős and beyond Prof. Jonathan P. Bowen London South Bank University Museophile Limited, UK www.jpbowen.com

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Developing and monitoring communities has become increasingly easy on the web as the number of interactive facilities and amount of data available about communities increases. It is possible to view connections on social and professional networks in the form of mathematical graphs. It is also possible to visualise connections between authors of academic papers. For example, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, and Academia.edu, now have large corpuses of freely available information on publications, together with author and citation details, that can be accessed and presented in a number of ways. In mathematical circles, the concept of the Erdős number has been introduced in honour of the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, measuring the collaborative distance" of a person away from Erdős through links by co-author. Similar metrics have been proposed in other fields. The possibility of exploring and improving the presentation of such links online in the sciences and other fields will be presented as a means of improving the outreach and impact of publications by academics across different disciplines. Some practical guidance on what is worthwhile in presenting publication information online are given.

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Making scholarly publications accessible online:Erdős and beyondProf. Jonathan P. Bowen

London South Bank UniversityMuseophile Limited, UK

www.jpbowen.com

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Introduction• Prof. Jonathan Bowen• Mathematics, art, engineering,

computer science, softwareengineering, museum informatics

• Career: Oxford, Reading, LSBU (Emeritus)• Visitor: King’s College London, Brunel,

Westminster, Waikato (New Zealand, 2011), Pratt Institute (New York, USA, 2012)

• Electronic Visualisation and the Arts(EVA London conference, 10–12 July 2012)

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Overview• Communities• Publications• Co-authorship• Citations• Databases

– Google Scholar– Microsoft Academic Search– Academia.edu

• Visualization

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Communities• Community of Practice

(CoP) – collection of peopledeveloping domain knowledge

• Academic communities– researchers, professors, science, arts, ...

• Body of Knowledge (BoK)– ontology for a particular domain

• Interdisciplinarity vs. Multidisciplinarity

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Community of Practice (CoP)Social sciences concept• Wenger, E.: Communities of Practice:

Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1998)

• Wenger, E., McDermott, R.A., Snyder, W.: Cultivating Communities of Practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Harvard Business School Press, Boston (2002)

• A brief introduction by Etienne Wenger, 2006: www.ewenger.com/theory

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Fundamental elements of a CoP1. Domain: Common interest to be

effective. E.g., software engineering.

2. Community: Group of people willing to engage with others. E.g., researchers.

3. Practice: Explore existing and develop new knowledge. Industrial liaison vs. basic research.

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Cultivating a CoP1. Design the CoP to evolve naturally. 2. Create opportunities for open discussion.3. Welcome and allow different levels of

participation.

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Example – two communities

(arts and science)

Facebook TouchGraph connections

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GoogleFirst webserver, 1999– already in a museum!

Technology

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Google

• Museum label

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Google Scholar• http://scholar.google.com – publications & citations

• h-index (top h publications with h or more citations)

• i10-index (at least 10 citations)

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h-index

Top h publications with h or more citations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

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Microsoft Academic Search• http://academic.research.microsoft.com

• Publications, citations, h-index

• g-index (top g with a total of at least g2 citations)

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g-index

Top g with a total of at least g2 citations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-index

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Top 30 co-authors as measured by the number of publications

Academic Search

co-author graph

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Academic Search citation graph• Top 34 authors by number of citations

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Supervisors and studentsAlonzo Church and Alan Turing

Academic Search

genealogy graph

See alsoMathematics Genealogywebsite

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Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954)• Centenary year in 2012

– www.turingcentenary.eu • Andrew Hodges (Turing biographer)

– Alan Turing: the Enigma (1983)– www.turing.org.uk

• The Turing Digital Archive (3,000 images)– King’s College Cambridge– www.turingarchive.org

• Jack Copeland’s Turing Archive (facsimiles)– www.alanturing.net

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Turing’s Worlds (23–24 June 2012)• Department of Continuing Education, University

of Oxford – http://conted.ox.ac.uk/turing

Ivor Grattan-Guinness et al.

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Happy Birthday Alan Turing!• Also Ivor Grattan-Guinness, historian of mathematics

and logic (born 23 June 1941)

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The Erdős number• Paul Erdős (1913–1996)

– Hungarian mathematician– en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős– Erdős number 0– Co-authored over 1,000 publications

• 511 co-authors– Erdős number 1– Co-authors of Erdős co-authors

• Erdős number 2• Etc.

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Academic Search

co-author path

Robin Wilson, mathematician and EVA London 2012 co-author

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The Bacon number

• Kevin Bacon (born 1958),film and theatre actoren.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_number

• Cf. Erdős number, but for film credits• “Erdős–Bacon number”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_numberSum of person’s Erdős/Bacon nos(as low as three!)

• Further numbers for other fields?

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Academia.edu • Academic networking website• Cf. LinkedIn (professional networking)• Includes affiliation to university and

department• Allows easy addition of books, papers,

answers, talks, teaching documents, research interests, CV, status updates, websites, etc.

• Add keywords for publication searching• Monitoring of access statistics

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Academia.edu home page

E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

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Academia.edu statistics

E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

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Academia.edu search engine accesses

E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen

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Academia.edu document accesses

Last 30 days

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Academia.edu document accesses

Last 30 days

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Academia.edu top documents

Last 30 days

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Academia.edu keyword searches

Last 30 days

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Academia.edu country accesses

Last 30 days

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Academia.edu top country accesses

Last 30 days

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Non-free citations websites

• E.g., Web of Knowledge

• Thomson Reuters: http://wokinfo.com

• UK: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk

• OK if your university subscribes

• But not all do ...

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Free publications websites• ACM Digital Library – CS professional body• BibSonomy – social bookmark and

publication sharing system• CiteSeerX – publications database• DBLP – CS bibliography, individual effort• Issuu – personal documents (PDF, ...)• Mendeley – reference manager,

academic social network• ResearchGate – for scientists, make your

work visible, 1.7 million members• Researchr – find, collect, share, review

scientific publications

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ACM Digital Library• Computer science professional body• Editable personal publications page• portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81407593776

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ACM Digital Library

Personal page features

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Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

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Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

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Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers

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Summary

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

• Plethora of sites

• Check you profile on a selection

• Choose one or two effective ones

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Conclusion

Prof. Jonathan Bowen(FBCS, FRSA)

[email protected]

• Academia.edu – virtual community• Academic Search – visualisation• Google Scholar – visibility

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Visualising Virtual Communities:From Erdős to the Arts

• EVA London 2012 conference proceedingswww.bcs.org/ewic/eva2012

• Jonathan P. Bowen & Robin J. Wilsonewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/46141

• Email: [email protected]

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