13 papers
Enhancing Scientific Named Entity Recognition via Large Language Models: A Type-driven Multi-task Learning Approach
Tong Bao, Yi Zhao, Heng Zhang +1
Scientific named entity recognition (SciNER) plays a crucial role in information extraction and knowledge discovery from scientific texts. Recently, large language models (LLMs) ha…
Gender Differences in Research Topic and Method Selection in Library and Information Science: Perspectives from Three Top Journals
Chengzhi Zhang, Siqi Wei, Yi Zhao +1
Research in the social sciences has shown that there are gender differences in the selection of research methods, with women often opting for qualitative methods while men prefer q…
Do more heads imply better performance? An empirical study of team thought leaders' impact on scientific team performance
Yi Zhao, Yuzhuo Wang, Heng Zhang +4
Thought leadership plays a crucial role in boosting team performance; thus, teams with more thought leaders may perform better. However, the impact of the number of thought leaders…
Measuring Research Difficulty of Academic Papers: A Case Study in Natural Language Processing
Haochuan Li, Jingyuan Li, Yi Zhao +4
With the rapid growth of the number of academic papers, systematically evaluating the difficulty of research and its relationship to academic impact offers important significance f…
Is Higher Team Gender Diversity Correlated with Better Scientific Impact?
Chengzhi Zhang, Jiaqi Zeng, Yi Zhao
Collaborative research involving scholars of various genders constitutes a prominent theme in scientific research that has garnered substantial attention. While several studies hav…
Beyond Single-Dimension Novelty: How Combinations of Theory, Method, and Results-based Novelty Shape Scientific Impact
Yi Zhao, Yang Chenggang, Yuzhuo Wang +3
Scientific novelty drives advances at the research frontier, yet it is also associated with heightened uncertainty and potential resistance from incumbent paradigms, leading to com…