research musings
Hélène Draux, Juergen Wastl, Kathryn Weber-Boer, Simon Porter, Peter Kolarz, Emily KoechelResearch musings — where we discuss innovations in bibliometrics and share snippets of bibliometric analyses.
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Order and disorder: alphabetical authorship across research fields
In scholarly publishing, the order in which authors are listed is rarely just a formality. It reflects long-held conventions, silent negotiations, and often the implicit structure of contribution and credit. First and last authorship, in pa...
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VP Research Evaluation and Global Challenges
I work in Data & Analytics at Digital Science as a computational social scientist, finding responsible ways to highlight and understand the use and perception of research. My academic background is in archaeological anthropology. @kowb.bsky.social
Simon Porter is VP of Research Futures at Digital Science, and an ORCiD board member. ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6151-8423 figshare: https://figshare.com/authors/Simon_Porter/1364613
Political sociologist turned policy consultant, now part of the leadership team of the Research on Research Institute at UCL.
I specialize in leveraging data as a communication tool with all the analytics, BI and automation that requires. I'm delighted to be supporting science and research after shifting from the private sector.
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