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ClearArticlePhysics World31 May 2024
Ask me anything: Daniel Hook – ‘The skills I learned as a researcher are applicable and helpful in any walk of life’
Daniel Hook, chief executive of Digital Science, reflects on his career developing information tools for researchers
ArticleDigital Science2 May 2024
Barcelona: A beautiful horizon
Digital Science CEO Daniel Hook explores how the Barcelona Declaration will push forward openness and transparency, as well as innovation to benefit the scholarly record.
PaperarXiv.org9 April 2024
The Rise and Fall of the Initial Era
Bibliographic data is a rich source of information that goes beyond the use cases of location and citation -- it also encodes both cultural and technological context. For most of its existence, the scholarly record has changed slowly and hence provides an opportunity to gain insight through its reflection of the cultural norms of the research community over the last four centuries. While it is often difficult to distinguish the originating driver of change, it is still valuable to consider the motivating influences that have led to changes in the structure of the scholarly record. An "initial era" is identified during which initials were used in preference to full names by authors on scholarly communications. Causes of the emergence and demise of this era are considered as well as the implications of this era on research culture and practice.
* ordered by publication date, which is not the same as when any of it was written.