Don't forget the seminar this evening with Johan, my former PhD
student who now works in the US. For those who would like to meet him
beforehand, he will arrive at my office in CLEA some time before the
seminar...
Social network indicators of
scientific impact
by
(Los Alamos National Laboratory
& Old Dominion University)
Place: room 3C204 (building C, 3rd floor), VUB campus
Oefenplein
Time: Friday, May 13, at 17:30 h.
Abstract:
I discuss a methodology developed at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL) to determine article and journal impact from logs
of user actions captured across a range of distributed information
systems. We derive journal and article co-download graphs from the
resulting log data which can complement existing citation data.
Social network metrics which exploit the structural features of the
generated co-download graphs provide an alternative assessment
of article and journal impact relative to the particular user
community of a digital library. The aggregation of log data across
different institutions and communities may lead to a standardized,
generally applicable set of usage-based article and journal impact
data. I discuss how the Los Alamos National Laboratory has studied
the nature, structure and characteristics of its own customer base by
an application of this methodology and provide the results of a
recent analysis.
ECCO seminar
programme coming weeks
20 May: Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis:
Closure and the modular evolution of matter
27 May: Lito Kyritsi: Systems
Modelling of Cancer
3 Jun: Laetitia De Jaegher: Towards
sustainable development: the precautionary principle as a call for a
new theory of law to support multi-dimensional governance
ECCO seminars normally take place each Friday at 17h30 in room
3C204 of the VUB Campus Etterbeek. Everyone interested is welcome.
The seminars are very interactive, with small groups (about 8-10
people). The intention is to discuss in depth the research being
proposed, and to look for interdisciplinary connections with other
ECCO-related themes. Seminars last about two hours, after which the
remaining participants go to take a drink or a snack in the Opinio
Café on the campus, to continue the discussion in a more relaxed
setting.
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Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
"Evolution, Complexity and Cognition" research group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
