daniel’s theories

history of research3

PaperFrontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics1 June 2022
Editorial: Trust and Infrastructure in Scholarly Communications
When Dickens wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” in A Tale of Two Cities, he was describing the effects of two separate but linked revolutions—one in the UK where industrialization and technology had changed the social fabric as cities garnered population at the expense of their rural surroundings; and the other in France, were bloody revolution had overthrown the ancien régime, only to replace it with a new reign of terror. Today, we stand at the beginning of the first exponential industrial revolution.
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.
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.