Category Archives: Researchers

Characterizing Interdisciplinarity of Researchers and Research Topics Using Web Search Engines

Researchers’ networks have been subject to active modeling and analysis. Earlier literature mostly focused on citation or co-authorship networks reconstructed from annotated scientific publication databases, which have several limitations. Recently, general-purpose web search engines have also been utilized to collect … Continue reading

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Blogging your research is not a recipe for disaster

The physicist’s implication that scientists who blog about their research are trying to circumvent peer review is unfair. If we agree that science writing is valuable to society, scientists should share the same responsibility as journalists to provide comment and … Continue reading

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Social media: A guide for researchers

Read Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work. … Continue reading

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