Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

Salah, Alkım Almila Akdağ; Scharnhorst, Andrea; Wyatt, Sally

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“…Nyhan and Duke-Williams (2014) analyzed Computers and the humanities (1966–2004) and Literary and Linguistic Computing (1986–2011), and found that a small group of people tend to co-author together, while the majority of authors do not connect with other co-authorship clusters. Salah et al (2015) explored nearly 700 DH-related journal articles from various sources, situating the community within a larger disciplinary context.…”

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Cross-national digital humanities research collaborations: structure, patterns and themes

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the structure, patterns and themes of cross-national collaborations in Digital Humanities research through the application of social network analysis and visualization tools.Design/methodology/approachThe sample includes articles containing Digital Humanities research in the Web of Science Core Collection as of December 2018. First, co-occurrence data representing collaborations among nations were extracted from author affiliations. Second, the descriptive statistics, network indicators and international communities were calculated. Third, the research topics of different cross-national collaboration communities based on ISI keywords, author keywords, title and abstracts were detected.FindingsThe results show that the scope of international collaborations in Digital Humanities research is broad, but the distribution among nations is unbalanced. The USA, Germany and England were identified as the major contributors. Five research communities are identified, led by the USA, Germany, England, Belgium and France. The communities share common research topics such as history, GIS, text mining, visualization, while each has its own research emphasis.Originality/valueThis study applied various informetric methods and tools to reveal the collaboration structure, patterns and themes among nations in Digital Humanities research.

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Cross-national digital humanities research collaborations: structure, patterns and themes

2020

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“…Moreover, some scholars use not only academic social network platforms (such as ResearchGate, Academia. edu, or Mendeley) but also a variety of social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, blogs, and podcasts for scholarly communication [23]. These social media tools have expanded the possibilities of informal communication.…”

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Scholarly Communication and the Academic Library: Perceptions and Recent Developments

Klain-Gabbay¹,

Shoham²

2019

A Complex Systems Perspective of Communication From Cells to Societies

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This chapter focuses on the role that academic libraries play in the process of scholarly communication and presents a mixed-methods study to investigate (a) how faculty members perceive the involvement of academic librarians in scholarly communication and (b) how academic librarians perceive their own abilities to be involved in this process. The research population included faculty members from the faculties of humanities and social sciences in three Israeli academic institutions and academic librarians working in the libraries affiliated with these faculties. Interviews regarding the role of academic librarians in scholarly communication indicated wide gaps between faculty members and academic librarians and between individual members of each group, while questionnaires showed that a similar percentage of librarians and faculty members believe that academic librarians are potentially capable of being involved in this process. However, when asked whether the academic librarians should be involved in scholarly communication, only 36% of the librarians answered positively, as compared with 55% of the faculty members. These gaps highlight the need for change in academic libraries, as librarians should possess adequate technological skills, broad general knowledge, and an understanding of how to reorganize the library work so as to accommodate collaborations with faculty members.

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“…Scholars rely on social media platforms (such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, and podcasts) for their communication, just like the rest of us. The use of these general purpose platforms is complemented by social network sites (SNS) tailored specifically for academic audiences (Salah et al, 2015). These socalled "academic social network sites" (ASNS) encompasses a variety of online platforms (such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu), but seek to bring the benefits of online networking to academia (Jordan, 2019).…”

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Social media and altmetrics

Ebrahimzadeh¹

2022

Handbook on Research Assessment in the Social Sciences

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Analysing an Academic Field through the Lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Cross-national digital humanities research collaborations: structure, patterns and themes

Cross-national digital humanities research collaborations: structure, patterns and themes

Scholarly Communication and the Academic Library: Perceptions and Recent Developments

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