High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations

Hofer, Erik C.; McKee, S.; Birnholtz, Jeremy; Avery, P.

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“…Even within the domain of physics, researchers' collaboration and publication practices might vary from one specialty to the other. An extreme example will be high‐energy physics (HEP), where large numbers of transnational coauthorship are often observed, reflecting HEP as a highly collaborative field where teams from all over the world are involved in large‐scale experiments run on sophisticated infrastructure, such as Large Hadron Collide (LHC) at European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN; Hofer, Mckee, Birnholtz, & Avery, 2008). Further work needs to be done to gauge the impact of such extreme cases on the overall bibliometric data.…”

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Inequality of publishing performance and international collaboration in physics

Huang

Tang

Chen

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Using a database of 1.4 million papers indexed byWeb of Science, we examined the global trends in publication inequality and international collaboration in physics. The publication output and citations received by authors hosted in each country were taken into account. Although inequality decreased over time, further progress toward equality has somewhat abated in recent years. The skewedness of the global distribution in publication output was shown to be correlated with article impact, that is, the inequality is more significant in articles of higher impact. It was also observed that, despite the trend toward more equalitarian distribution, scholarly participation in physics is still determined by a select group. Particularly noteworthy has been China's rapid growth in publication outputs and a gradual improvement in its impact. Finally, the data also suggested regional differences in scientific collaboration. A distinctively high concentration of transnational collaboration and publication performance was found among EU countries.

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Inequality of publishing performance and international collaboration in physics

Huang

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Chen

2011

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…Traditionally, scientific reputations, tenure promotions, and hiring decisions are based on scientific productivity demonstrated by discovery contributions and peer-reviewed publications (Hofer et al 2008). …”

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The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure

Kee

Browning

2010

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This article focuses on funding for cyberinfrastructure and how funding affects the cyberinfrastructure foundation laid, who completes the work, and what the outcomes of the funding are. By following qualitative procedures and thematic analysis, we identify five dialectical tensions across three difference levels of institutions, individuals, and ideologies in the funding infrastructure of cyberinfrastructure. Through an organizational communication lens, we define funding infrastructure as the communication arrangements of institutions, individuals, and ideologies that must be coordinated in order for cyberinfrastructure to be brought into existence. These communication arrangements include salient motivations of and financial compensations for individuals who engage in them. They also comprise explicit policies about funding, as well as implicit ideologies about science embedded in funding, as held by institutions involved in these communication arrangements.

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“…If one lacks the data-processing resources to properly distinguish one event from another across the population as a whole, they will begin to look i.i.d., leading one to resort to Gaussian methods that will legitimate traveling further down the Ashby space of Figure 2 in search of parsimonious representations and responses. Yet, the big story at the beginning of the new millennium is that the necessary dataprocessing resources are now rapidly becoming available, allowing us to deal with samples of one on a scale hitherto unimagined (Hofer, McKee, Birnholtz, & Avery, 2008). As noted earlier, many firms located on the upper left region of Figure 1 have customers who live in small microniches, have unique tastes, and may now be catered to in a customized fashion using Internet-based strategies and technologies-as done by Amazon, eBay, and Google (Anderson, 2006).…”

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Connectivity, Extremes, and Adaptation: A Power-Law Perspective of Organizational Effectiveness

Boisot

McKelvey

2011

Journal of Management Inquiry

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Managers are often required to respond in adaptive ways to the threats and opportunities presented by rare, extreme outcomes. Given these, management scholars frequently face a stark choice: say something useful to practitioners using narratives in which dramatic effects are often achieved at the expense of academic rigor or maintain the latter by sacrificing practitioner relevance. Recent developments in complexity science offer a new perspective. The article distinguishes between the simplicities achieved by reductionism (equilibrium, law-like equations, linearity, and predictability) and the complexity triggered by initiating “butterfly events”—nonlinearity, scale-free causes, and power laws (PLs). Schema formation and adaptation within Gaussian and PL ontologies are framed in terms of Ashby’s law of requisite variety. Variety perceived to be requisite is sensitive to the type of ontological assumptions that are made. PL approaches to management inquiry focusing on rank/frequency distributions, fractal structures, and scale-free dynamics are outlined.

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High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations

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Inequality of publishing performance and international collaboration in physics

Inequality of publishing performance and international collaboration in physics

The Dialectical Tensions in the Funding Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure

Connectivity, Extremes, and Adaptation: A Power-Law Perspective of Organizational Effectiveness

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