Making scholarly publications accessible online:Erdős and beyondProf. Jonathan P. Bowen
London South Bank UniversityMuseophile Limited, UK
www.jpbowen.com
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)
Overview• Communities• Publications• Co-authorship• Citations• Databases
– Google Scholar– Microsoft Academic Search– Academia.edu
• Visualization
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
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
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.
Cultivating a CoP1. Design the CoP to evolve naturally. 2. Create opportunities for open discussion.3. Welcome and allow different levels of
participation.
Example – two communities
(arts and science)
Facebook TouchGraph connections
GoogleFirst webserver, 1999– already in a museum!
Technology
• Museum label
Google Scholar• http://scholar.google.com – publications & citations
• h-index (top h publications with h or more citations)
• i10-index (at least 10 citations)
h-index
Top h publications with h or more citations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
Microsoft Academic Search• http://academic.research.microsoft.com
• Publications, citations, h-index
• g-index (top g with a total of at least g2 citations)
g-index
Top g with a total of at least g2 citations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-index
Top 30 co-authors as measured by the number of publications
Academic Search
co-author graph
Academic Search citation graph• Top 34 authors by number of citations
Supervisors and studentsAlonzo Church and Alan Turing
Academic Search
genealogy graph
See alsoMathematics Genealogywebsite
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
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.
Happy Birthday Alan Turing!• Also Ivor Grattan-Guinness, historian of mathematics
and logic (born 23 June 1941)
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.
Academic Search
co-author path
Robin Wilson, mathematician and EVA London 2012 co-author
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?
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
Academia.edu home page
E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen
Academia.edu statistics
E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen
Academia.edu search engine accesses
E.g., lsbu.academia.edu/JonathanBowen
Academia.edu document accesses
Last 30 days
Academia.edu document accesses
Last 30 days
Academia.edu top documents
Last 30 days
Academia.edu keyword searches
Last 30 days
Academia.edu country accesses
Last 30 days
Academia.edu top country accesses
Last 30 days
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 ...
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
ACM Digital Library• Computer science professional body• Editable personal publications page• portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81407593776
ACM Digital Library
Personal page features
DBLP – Computer Science Bibliography• University project – personal publications page• Major computer science journals and conferences• dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bowen:Jonathan_P=.html
DBLP – Computer Science Bibliography• University project – personal publications page• Major computer science journals and conferences• dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Bowen:Jonathan_P=.html
Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers
Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers
Mendeley – www.mendeley.com Professional networking, managing/sharing papers
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
Conclusion
Prof. Jonathan Bowen(FBCS, FRSA)
• Academia.edu – virtual community• Academic Search – visualisation• Google Scholar – visibility
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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