Measuring discursive influence across scholarship

Measuring discursive influence across scholarship

Assessing scholarly influence is critical for understanding the collective system of scholarship and the history of academic inquiry. Influence is multifaceted, and citations reveal only part of it. Citation counts exhibit preferential attachment and follow a rigid "news cycle" that can miss sustained and indirect forms of influence. Building on dynamic topic models that track distributional sh...

Measuring Frames: Discursive Institutions in Polarized Politics

ResearchGate: Disseminating, Communicating and Measuring Scholarship?1

ResearchGate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their publications and interact with each other. Like Academia.edu, it provides a new way for scholars to disseminate their publications and hence potentially changes the dynamics of informal scholarly communication. This article assesses whether ResearchGate usage and publication data broadly reflect existin...

Measuring Parsing Difficulty Across Treebanks

One of the main difficulties in statistical parsing is associated with the task of choosing the correct parse tree for the input sentence, among all possible parse trees allowed by the adopted grammar model. While this difficulty is usually evaluated by means of empirical performance measures, such as labeled precision and recall, several theoretical measures have also been proposed in the lite...

Measuring fairness across cultural contexts

Future economic game research should include: (1) within-culture comparisons between individuals exposed and not exposed to market integration; (2) use of a game (such as the “Sharing Game”) that enables subjects to maximize their earnings while also maximizing those of the other participant; and (3) assessment of performance in a repeated-trials format that might encourage sensitivity to the g...