Characterizing the Diffusion of Knowledge in an Academic Community Through the Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources
The principle of open science is to spread the knowledge generated by institutions and individuals in order to promote the development of society. In this sense, knowing the impact of research is an important aspect for any scientist and institution. Char
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and V´ıctor Hugo Men´endez-Dom´ınguez
Facultad de Matem´ aticas, Universidad Aut´ onoma de Yucat´ an, M´erida, Mexico {jared.guerrero,mdoming}@correo.uady.mx
‘ Abstract. The principle of open science is to spread the knowledge generated by institutions and individuals in order to promote the development of society. In this sense, knowing the impact of research is an important aspect for any scientist and institution. Characterizing the dissemination of knowledge has traditionally been carried out through the citation index of works published in journals and documentation repositories. This work presents a complementary aspect that may be relevant to identify the impact of a publication in an academic community. A case study is described in which, using a methodology and graphs to integrate different sources of heterogeneous data, an overview of the interest generated from production of a public university in the users of a specialized social network is provided. The different user groups are characterized by their academic profiles and countries of origin. In addition, the results allow identifying focus groups for possible collaborators or trends in research lines.
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Introduction
In recent years, the open science [29] movement has gained strength on the basis of the principle that information, data and scientific products are more accessible and more reliably leveraged with the active participation of all stakeholders. This is intended to promote innovation in the development of society based on the knowledge generated in institutions and research centers. In the case of Mexico, the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) has established a series of legal guidelines to ensure the accessibility of scientific research, financed by public resources, for all citizens through the dissemination of scientific, technological and innovation knowledge [7,8]. c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 B. Villaz´ on-Terrazas et al. (Eds.): KGSWC 2020, CCIS 1232, pp. 88–101, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65384-2_7
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Thus, the democratization of knowledge will be possible to the extent that the dissemination of the results of research carried out by scientists around the world is maximized. The characterization of this diffusion plays a relevant role in measuring the impact of the production of an institution or an individual. Usually, the impact of scientific production is made through some citation model, which tries to establish to what extent a product was relevant to generate a new one. That is, it measures the degree of knowledge contribution to generate new knowledge. However, these models are based on the products generated and not on the people or processes associated with the development of those products. In this sense, repositories (such as SCOPUS, Web Of Science) and specialized social networks (such as Mendeley), being spaces for exchange and collaboration betwe
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