3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
How large should academic departments be?
Jan Bachmann, Lisette Espín-Noboa, Fariba Karimi +3
Academic departments are the primary unit of scholarship and education at universities, and they vary vastly in their sizes. However, the consequences and natural dynamics of depar…
cs.DL2026
Bridging the Language Gap in Scholarly Data I: Enhancing Author Disambiguation Algorithms for Chinese Names
Mingrong She, Liuhuaying Yang, Ana Maria Jaramillo +1
Disambiguating scholars with identical names is essential for accurate authorship assignment and robust large-scale scientometric research. Existing methods are often designed for…
cs.CY2025
Whose Name Comes Up? Auditing LLM-Based Scholar Recommendations
Daniele Barolo, Chiara Valentin, Fariba Karimi +3
This paper evaluates the performance of six open-weight LLMs (llama3-8b, llama3.1-8b, gemma2-9b, mixtral-8x7b, llama3-70b, llama3.1-70b) in recommending experts in physics across f…