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Open Access Improves the Dissemination of Science: Insights from Wikipedia
Puyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib, Robert West +1
Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such as journal articles, play a critical role in supporting its mission. The open access mo…
Polarization and reliability of news sources in Wikipedia
Puyu Yang, Giovanni Colavizza
Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia: its open contribution policy allows everyone to edit and share their knowledge. A challenge of radical openness is that it facilitates…
Unsilencing Colonial Archives via Automated Entity Recognition
Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens +1
Colonial archives are at the center of increased interest from a variety of perspectives, as they contain traces of historically marginalized people. Unfortunately, like most archi…
From Books to Knowledge Graphs
Natallia Kokash, Matteo Romanello, Ernest Suyver +1
The digital transformation of the scientific publishing industry has led to dramatic improvements in content discoverability and information analytics. Unfortunately, these improve…
A Map of Science in Wikipedia
Puyu Yang, Giovanni Colavizza
In recent decades, the rapid growth of Internet adoption is offering opportunities for convenient and inexpensive access to scientific information. Wikipedia, one of the largest en…
The case for the Humanities Citation Index (HuCI): a citation index by the humanities, for the humanities
Giovanni Colavizza, Silvio Peroni, Matteo Romanello
Citation indexes are by now part of the research infrastructure in use by most scientists: a necessary tool in order to cope with the increasing amounts of scientific literature be…
A map of Digital Humanities research across bibliographic data sources
Gianmarco Spinaci, Giovanni Colavizza, Silvio Peroni
Purpose. This study presents the results of an experiment we performed to measure the coverage of Digital Humanities (DH) publications in mainstream open and proprietary bibliograp…
Meta-research on COVID-19: An overview of the early trends
Giovanni Colavizza
COVID-19 is having a dramatic impact on research and researchers. The pandemic has underlined the severity of known challenges in research and surfaced new ones, but also accelerat…
Archives and AI: An Overview of Current Debates and Future Perspectives
Giovanni Colavizza, Tobias Blanke, Charles Jeurgens +1
The digital transformation is turning archives, both old and new, into data. As a consequence, automation in the form of artificial intelligence techniques is increasingly applied…
Wikipedia Citations: A comprehensive dataset of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia
Harshdeep Singh, Robert West, Giovanni Colavizza
Wikipedia's contents are based on reliable and published sources. To this date, relatively little is known about what sources Wikipedia relies on, in part because extracting citati…
Quantifying the higher-order influence of scientific publications
Massimo Franceschet, Giovanni Colavizza
Citation impact is commonly assessed using direct, first-order citation relations. We consider here instead the indirect influence of publications on new publications via citations…
The OpenCitations Data Model
Marilena Daquino, Silvio Peroni, David Shotton +6
A variety of schemas and ontologies are currently used for the machine-readable description of bibliographic entities and citations. This diversity, and the reuse of the same ontol…
The citation advantage of linking publications to research data
Giovanni Colavizza, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Isla Staden +2
Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging or mandating authors to provide data availability statements. As a…
A principled methodology for comparing relatedness measures for clustering publications
Ludo Waltman, Kevin W. Boyack, Giovanni Colavizza +1
There are many different relatedness measures, based for instance on citation relations or textual similarity, that can be used to cluster scientific publications. We propose a pri…
A diachronic study of historiography
Giovanni Colavizza
The humanities are often characterized by sociologists as having a low mutual dependence among scholars and high task uncertainty. According to Fuchs' theory of scientific change,…
An empirical investigation of the Tribes and their Territories: are research specialisms rural and urban?
Giovanni Colavizza, Thomas Franssen, Thed van Leeuwen
We propose an operationalization of the rural and urban analogy introduced in Becher and Trowler [2001]. According to them, a specialism is rural if it is organized into many, smal…
Characterizing in-text citations in scientific articles: A large-scale analysis
Kevin W. Boyack, Nees Jan van Eck, Giovanni Colavizza +1
We report characteristics of in-text citations in over five million full text articles from two large databases - the PubMed Central Open Access subset and Elsevier journals - as f…
The Closer the Better: Similarity of Publication Pairs at Different Co-Citation Levels
Giovanni Colavizza, Kevin W. Boyack, Nees Jan van Eck +1
We investigate the similarities of pairs of articles which are co-cited at the different co-citation levels of the journal, article, section, paragraph, sentence and bracket. Our r…
The structural role of the core literature in history
Giovanni Colavizza
The intellectual landscapes of the humanities are mostly uncharted territory. Little is known on the ways published research of humanist scholars defines areas of intellectual acti…