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- Dehdarirad, Tahereh, 1984, et al.
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Use of social media sites and readership diversity: A case study at Chalmers University of Technology
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social media has provided new opportunities for academics to disseminate their research results. They allow users to upload academic papers and links to published papers, track demand for their published articles, and engage in professional discussions with other users (Meishar-Tal and Efrat Pieterse, 2017). This paper aimed to study the use of academic and non-academic profiling sites and platforms amongst scholars at Chalmers University of Technology.We were also interested in the purpose that scholars had for using these platforms. Furthermore, using data about people who register in Mendeley as readers of papers, this article explored diverse types of users of scientific papers by scholars at Chalmers. These gave us insight into the different social media platforms being used, the purpose of use, the readers’ status and their topics of interest at Chalmers. Furthermore, this helped us to provide statistics on how scholarly publications at Chalmers are used for scientific, educational, or other professional purposes.
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- Axelsson, Ann-Sofie, et al.
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Att etablera ett kollaboratorium inom biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap : behov och utmaningar från ett praktikerperspektiv
- 2007
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Ingår i: Svensk biblioteksforskning. - : Högskolan i Borås. - 0284-4354 .- 1653-5235. ; 16:1, s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes a study that investigated the need for and challenges connected to the establishment of a collaboratory - a sociotechnical forum where information and other resources can be made accessible and used by practitioners within library and information science. In order to identify needs and challenges interviews were carried out with a number of practitioners at a number of different institutions. The results reveal that there is a need for a collaboratory in order to facilitate the sharing of personal knowledge “on demand”. It is of great importance that the collaboratory is well integrated with practitioner’s daily activities.
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- Negretti, Raffaella, 1971, et al.
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Practices and experiences of science communication: what scientists write beyond academia
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Scientists’ communication outside academia—science communication—has been researched extensively in the Social Sciences, examining its value and role in society (Davies, 2020). In Applied Linguistics, recent work such as Luzón and Pérez-Llantada (2019) investigates the constellations of genres and practices that comprise academic writing, yet questions remain about scientists’ own perspective and experiences with science communication. What genres are written by scientists, beyond publication? What can we learn from their experiences? To address these questions, we conducted a two-year project at a university of technology. In phase one, we adopted content and network analysis to map most frequently text types, topics, fields, and collaborative networks. Results indicate that science communication is done mostly by tenured academics in fields where research has a clear impact on society. In phase two, we investigated established scientists’ experiences through ethnographic interviews: what they write, how and why, and the role of science communication in their work life and career. Despite their different stories, common themes emerged. First, their motives denote ”scholarship of engagement” (Boyer, 1996): science communication aimed to propagate scientific knowledge, educate and engage (as opposed to marketization). Secondly, writing practices are tied to the nature of their work—comprising texts such as industry reports, non-fiction, and debate articles. Thirdly, they write for intrinsic motives, mostly in their spare time and without training or support. We suggest directions for further research and the development of training programs that build on genre pedagogy. Boyer, E. L. (1996). The scholarship of engagement. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 49(7), 18-33. Davies, S. R. (2020). An Empirical and Conceptual Note on Science Communication’s Role in Society. Science Communication, 43(1), 116–133. Luzón, M. J., & Pérez-Llantada, C. (2019). Science communication on the internet : Old genres meet new genres. John Benjamins Publishing.
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- Negretti, Raffaella, 1971, et al.
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Scientific communication beyond academia: writing practices and scientists’ experiences
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Scientists’ communication outside academia—science communication—has increased in recent years along with the political will to democratise access to knowledge. Clearly, in this push towards engagement with society academics themselves play a central role, but questions remain of what they actually write beyond scientific publication. What other genres are written by scientists, in different fields? What are their experiences and what can we learn from them? We summarize a 2-year project that examined science communication writing practices at a university of technology. In phase one, we adopted content and network analysis to map the types of texts that are most frequently written, identifying topics, fields, and collaborative networks. Our results indicate a varied and uneven picture: science communication is done mostly by tenured academics in fields where research has a clear impact on society. In phase 2, through ethnographic narrative interviews we investigated established scientists’ experiences, motives, and practices: what they write, how they do it and why, and the place and space that science communication takes in their work life and career. The scientists we interviewed told very different “stories”, yet common themes emerged. First, their motives align with the notion of ”scholarship of engagement” (Boyer, 1996): science communication has democratic value as a means to educate and share scientific knowledge (as opposed to neo-liberal marketization). Secondly, they engage in different writing practices based on the nature of their work—producing texts such as reports to industry, non-fiction books, and debate articles. Third, they engage with science communication for intrinsic motives, writing mostly in their spare time, mostly without training or support. In the final phase of the project, we focus on the metacognitive strategies that these experienced scientists adopt when writing for readers outside academia, on the premise of research theorizing metacognition as facilitating transfer of writing skills across genres and tasks—as integrated in models of writing expertise. We conclude with suggestions for further research and the development of training programs that build on genre pedagogy. Boyer, E. L. (1996). The scholarship of engagement. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 49(7), 18-33.
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- Dehdarirad, Tahereh, 1984
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Could early tweet counts predict later citation counts? A gender study in Life Sciences and Biomedicine (2014–2016)
- 2020
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Ingår i: PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203 .- 1932-6203. ; 15:11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, it was investigated whether early tweets counts could differentially benefit female and male (first, last) authors in terms of the later citation counts received. The data for this study comprised 47,961 articles in the research area of Life Sciences & Biomedicine from 2014–2016, retrieved from Web of Science’s Medline. For each article, the number of received citations per year was downloaded from WOS, while the number of received tweets per year was obtained from PlumX. Using the hurdle regression model, I compared the number of received citations by female and male (first, last) authored papers and then I investigated whether early tweet counts could predict the later citation counts received by female and male (first, last) authored papers. In the regression models, I controlled for several important factors that were investigated in previous research in relation to citation counts, gender or Altmetrics. These included journal impact (SNIP), number of authors, open access, research funding, topic of an article, international collaboration, lay summary, F1000 Score and mega journal. The findings showed that the percentage of papers with male authors in first or last authorship positions was higher than that for female authors. However, female first and last-authored papers had a small but significant citation advantage of 4.7% and 5.5% compared to male-authored papers. The findings also showed that irrespective of whether the factors were included in regression models or not, early tweet counts had a weak positive and significant association with the later citations counts (3.3%) and the probability of a paper being cited (21.1%). Regarding gender, the findings showed that when all variables were controlled, female (first, last) authored papers had a small citation advantage of 3.7% and 4.2% in comparison to the male authored papers for the same number of tweets.
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- Dehdarirad, Tahereh, 1984, et al.
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How Does Media Reflect the OA and Non-OA Scientific Literature? A Case Study of Environment Sustainability
- 2020
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Ingår i: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 1611-3349 .- 0302-9743. ; 12051, s. 768-781
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- News outlets and popular science magazines have played an important role in increasing the public’s knowledge, engagement with and understanding of global environmental issues in recent years. Increased access to scholarly outputs might foster a culture of greater scientific education, which in turn could have a direct impact on public policy. This paper aimed to study: (i) Which topics in the area of environmental sustainability have been communicated to the members of the public via News and Popular Science articles. (ii) If these topics were also found in OA and Non-OA scientific articles. Three data sets comprising documents published between 2014 and 2018 were obtained from ProQuest and Scopus databases. Our findings showed four topics have been communicated to the general public via News and Popular Science articles. ‘Environmental protection’ and ‘Socio-economic aspects of environmental sustainability’ were the common topics amongst OA, Non-OA and News and Popular Science articles. Although the three sets had two topics in common, they placed different levels of importance on different topics. In the OA set ‘Biodiversity management & wildlife conservation’ and ‘Sustainable agriculture’ were regarded as motor topics. In the News and Popular Science set, ‘Environmental policy’ appeared as a well-developed and motor topic.
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- Dehdarirad, Tahereh, 1984, et al.
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News media attention in Climate Action: latent topics and open access
- 2021
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Ingår i: Scientometrics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0138-9130 .- 1588-2861. ; 126:9, s. 8109-8128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study we investigated whether open access could assist the broader dissemination of scientific research in Climate Action (Sustainable Development Goal 13) via news outlets. We did this by comparing (i) the share of open and non-open access documents in different Climate Action topics, and their news counts, and (ii) the mean of news counts for open access and non-open access documents. The data set of this study comprised 70,206 articles and reviews in Sustainable Development Goal 13, published during 2014–2018, retrieved from SciVal. The number of news mentions for each document was obtained from Altmetrics Details Page API using their DOIs, whereas the open access statuses were obtained using Unpaywall.org. The analysis in this paper was done using a combination of (Latent Dirichlet allocation) topic modelling, descriptive statistics, and regression analysis. The covariates included in the regression analysis were features related to authors, country, journal, institution, funding, readability, news source category and topic. Using topic modelling, we identified 10 topics, with topics 4 (meteorology) [21%], 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation) [18%] and 8 (ecosystems and biodiversity) [14%] accounting for 53% of the research in Sustainable Development Goal 13. Additionally, the results of regression analysis showed that while keeping all the variables constant in the model, open access papers in Climate Action had a news count advantage (8.8%) in comparison to non-open access papers. Our findings also showed that while a higher share of open access documents in topics such as topic 9 (Human vulnerability to risks) might not assist with its broader dissemination, in some others such as topic 5 (adaption, mitigation, and legislation), even a lower share of open access documents might accelerate its broad communication via news outlets.
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- Linde, Peter, et al.
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Accessibility and self-archiving of conference articles : A study on a selection of Swedish institutional repositories
- 2011
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Ingår i: Information Services and Use. - Guimarães : IOS Press. - 0167-5265 .- 1875-8789. ; 31:3-4, s. 259-269, s. 123-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main purpose of this project has been to examine the accessibility of refereed conference articles and the OA- and publishing policies of conferences in order to in this way elucidate different aspects concerning self-archiving in Swedish institutional repositories. For this purpose, the project participants have examined a number of conferences and references to conference articles via their institutional repositories during a specific time period and described these from the perspective of a common scheme. The study has showed that the local institutional repositories fill an important role to make conference publications visible. We have found that ca. 50% of the conference papers can be published as postprints in our institutional repositories. We have noticed that ca. 15% or the studied conference articles are not available at all. It is, therefore, of great importance to use local institutional repositories as a publishing channel, not only for primary published material such as dissertations and reports, but also as a source for finding these conference articles "without a home". Between 20-25% of the examined articles were found in some type of OA archive; ca. half of these were found in one of the project participants' own institutional repositories. This indicates that the publishing database of respective higher education institution is an important factor for open accessibility. Ca. 10% of the conferences in the study had an explicit OA policy or expressed such a policy by openly making conference articles accessible on their conference sites. A big problem when it comes to self-archiving of conference articles is the lack of information about OA policy. The landscape of conference publishing is complex and the self-archiving of documents from conferences is very time-consuming. Above all, we would wish a policy resource for conferences similar to the SHERPA/RoMEO. At present, however, there is no other alternative than scrutinizing the conferences' copyright information to the authors and from this attempt to draw conclusions about possible self-archiving. To facilitate the future handling and classification of conference articles in Swedish institutional repositories a number of recommendations are suggested.
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- Burgin, Mark, 1940, et al.
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Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: THEORETICAL INFORMATION STUDIES: Information in the world. - : WORLD SCIENTIFIC. - 9789813277496 ; , s. ix-xxi
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Theoretical Information Studies is the second volume which together with Philosophy and Methodology of Information comprises a two-volume edition with the aim of laying out the foundation of the emerging research field of the Study of Information. It is based on the Summit “Digitalisation for a Sustainable Society” organized by the International Society for the Study of Information held in Gothenburg in 2017 (http://is4si-2017.org). This volume contains a selection of the best theoretical contributions from the Gothenburg summit, together with a number of invited contributions of leading contemporary researchers in the field of the Study of Information. https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789813277496_0001
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