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ClearTalkDeSci Foundation8 May 2023
Scholarly Communication at the Dawn of Exponential Revolution
It is clear that we are entering a new phase of technological growth: Not an industrial revolution of the type that we have seen before but an exponential revolution awaits with all the challenges and wonders that entails. An abundance of data coupled with sophisticated tools for both capturing and analysing data has transformed research over the last half century. And yet, scholarly communication is still reliant on 17th Century technology. In this seminar we examine why this is the case and what the future of scholarly communication could look like.
ArticleDigital Science9 March 2023
Symplectic at 20: Thoughts from Digital Science’s CEO
Digital Science CEO and co-founder of Symplectic Daniel Hook reflects on why Symplectic is a special partner within the research community.
ArticleFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics26 April 2022
Connecting Scientometrics: Dimensions as a Route to Broadening Context for Analyses
Modern cloud-based data infrastructures open new vistas for the deployment of scientometric data into the hands of practitioners. These infrastructures lower barriers to entry by making data more available and compute capacity more affordable.
PaperFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics14 April 2021
Scaling Scientometrics: Dimensions on Google BigQuery as an Infrastructure for Large-Scale Analysis
Cloud computing has the capacity to transform many parts of the research ecosystem, from particular research areas to overall strategic decision making and policy. Scientometrics sits at the boundary between research and the decision-making, policy-making, and evaluation processes that underpin research.
PaperFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics12 January 2021
Real-Time Bibliometrics: Dimensions as a Resource for Analyzing Aspects of COVID-19
Dimensions was built as a platform to allow stakeholders in the research community, including academic bibliometricians, to more easily create and understand...
ArticleLSE Impact - Understanding impact and practice in academic research1 September 2020
From Impact to Inequality: How Post-COVID-19 government policy is privatising research innovation
Post-COVID-19 government policy has included an increase in investment in the UK’s research sector. However, Daniel Hook finds that the emphasis on the impact of this research means that longer-term, less measurable, blue skies research is being pushed into the private sector. Not only is blue skies research the key driver of technological change, but
PaperDigital Science26 August 2020
How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture
The research world has moved faster than many would have suspected possible in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In five months, a volume of work has been generated that even the most intensive of emergent fields have taken years to create. In our new report, How COVID-19 is Changing Research Culture, we investigate the research landscape trends and cultural changes in response to COVID-19. The report includes analysis of publication trends, geographic focal points of research, and collaboration patterns.
ArticleLSE Impact - Understanding impact and practice in academic research17 January 2020
Not yet the default setting – in 2020 open research remains a work in progress.
Responding to Daniel Hook’s post, The Open Tide - How openness in research and communication is becoming the default setting, Daniel Spichtinger argues that there remains much work to be done in order for open research practices to become the “new normal”. Highlighting unresolved issues around learned societies and the globalisation of open research policies,
Articledirect.mit.edu5 December 2019
Dimensions: Bringing down barriers between scientometricians and data
Until recently, comprehensive scientometrics data has been made available only in siloed, subscription-based tools that are inaccessible to researchers who lack institutional support and resources. As a result of limited data access, research evaluation practices have focused upon basic indicators that only take publications and their citation rates into account. This has blocked innovation on many fronts.
ArticleLSE Impact - Understanding impact and practice in academic research11 March 2019
The Open Tide – How openness in research and communication is becoming the default setting
Open Access to research findings is often presented as an end unto itself. However, the ethos of open access, to enable a greater sharing and utilisation of research knowledge, suggests a more complex network of scholarly communication. Presenting the findings of a recent report on the development of Open Access, Daniel Hook explores how the
PaperDigital Science24 January 2019
The Ascent of Open Access
This report is an analysis of the Open Access landscape since the turn of the millennium. It compares the leading countries for research outputs with those producing the most Open Access papers over a 16-year period, as well as Open Access collaboration trends.
* ordered by publication date, which is not the same as when any of it was written.