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Exploring Intellectual Network Structure of an Interdisciplinary Research Community: A Case Study of Taiwan's STS Community
No full text近年來國內跨領域研究有逐漸崛起的趨勢，科技與社會研究（Science, Technology and Society studies, STS）便是其中一例。有鑑於國內探討跨領域研究的相關文獻甚少，領域知識發展的歷程又和參與知識生產的學術社群有密切關係，故本研究將探討STS學術社群之智識網絡，希望揭示跨領域學術社群內部的智識網絡結構。本研究針對61名STS成員，使用書目計量學與社會網絡分析法進行資料蒐集與分析。根據學者過去發表的文獻，研究者分別使用書目耦合與作者共被引技術進行資料處理，得到兩個代表該社群智識的關係矩陣。研究者接續使用社會網絡分析技術分別對二者進行整體網絡分析、社會子群體分析、社會結構分析。研究結果顯示，此跨領域學術社群之網絡連結密度偏低，並且存在少數核心人物發揮凝聚網絡的影響力。根據行動者的連結模式，可將網絡分作7~8個子群體；除此之外，該網絡亦存在聯繫不同群體的「橋樑」角色。本研究發現此社群有跨研究領域、跨研究議題交流的現象。本研究亦發現該社群不僅有領域內的交流，領域間聯繫亦相當頻繁，此現象說明該社群之智識互動式建立在研究主題與議題之上，非侷限於相同學科背景內部。研究結果亦顯示該社群有知識重覆的冗贅性(knowledge redundancy)，為跨領域交流溝通之基礎。Recently interdisciplinary research has been receiving more and more attention in Taiwan. Yet there is little relevant literature on interdisciplinary research in Taiwan, especially on how knowledge of different origins are connected and synthesized. A case in point is the development of Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS) community. This study aims to reveal the intellectual network structure inside interdisciplinary scholarly communities by exploring Taiwan’s STS, using Bibliometrics and Social Network Analysis (SNA).
Based on 61 STS members’ journals articles, the researcher created two relational matrices to represent the intellectual structure of the community, one through bibliometric coupling technique; the other, author co-citation technique. By applying several SNA techniques, the researcher is able to analyze the configuration, social subgroups and social structure of this intellectual network.
Research findings show that the network connection density tends to be low and that there are several central figures who have influence on network cohesion. Based on actors’ similarity of connection pattern, the network can be divided into 7 to 8 subgroups. Furthermore, the social role of “the bridge” was identified who were responsible for connecting different social subgroups. Findings also reveal that the communication in terms of citation occurs not only within but also between disciplines, which demonstrates that the intellectual interaction crosses the disciplinary boundaries. The last finding suggests that the network is woven on the basis of research topics and issues instead of disciplines. It also suggests the existence of knowledge redundancy to a certain degree, which could be critical in order to communicate in such a diverse scholarly environment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Informal Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age: A Review of the Social Oriented Research
No full text本文的探索主題為數位環境中的非正式學術傳播現象，特別是各類資訊傳播科技(information & communication technologies，簡稱ICTs)使用於非正式學術傳播中所造成的社群關係及互動模式的變化。本文共分析十篇社會取向的實證研究，這些研究所關注的ICTs型態包含電子郵件、合力研究場域、及電子論壇。本文發現這些研究多在探討ICTs使用對非正式學術傳播產生之社會效應，僅少數討論社會文化脈絡對ICTs使用的影響與型塑作用。在比較各項研究發現後，本文歸納出ICTs使用的七個影響層面並提出未來研究之建議。
This article reviews prior research findings on computer mediated informal scholarly communication. Ten empirical studies revealing the relations between information & communication technologies (ICTs) and informal scholarly communication were analyzed and compared; a focus on research revealing the social impact or social shaping of ICTs had guided the paper selection. Types of ICTs covered in those studies included e-mails, collaboratories, and electronic forums. Most of the reviewed studies had focused on the effects or consequences of ICTs; only a few existing research had examined the social shaping of ICTs or ICT uses in social contexts. Based on what the studies were chiefly concerned, this article summarized seven aspects of ICT uses. Similar and contradictory findings were discussed and suggestions for future research were provided
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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