Practitioner articles in a scholarly journal

Encoding Lineage in Scholarly Articles

The development of new scientific concepts today is an outcome of the accumulated knowledge built over time. Every scientific domain requires understanding of the trends of the dependencies between its subdomains. Analyses of trends to capture such dependencies using conventional document modeling techniques is a challenging task due to two reasons: (1) conventional vector-space modeling based ...

Finding and Recommending Scholarly Articles

The rate at which scholarly literature is being produced, similar to the rate at which all things of economic value (as measured by world GDP) are being produced, has been increasing at approximately 3.5% per year for decades (estimated using data from the World Bank and the Web of Science). This means that during a typical 40 year career the amount of new literature produced each year increase...

Making functional units functional: The role of rhetorical structure in use of scholarly journal articles

Scholars are reading more journal articles than ever, so it is important that they focus on the relevant text within the articles they read. To support this goal, this study explores enhancements to a journal reading system by applying the idea of the functional unit, the smallest information unit with a distinct function within four major components of scholarly journal articles—Introduction, ...

Research Articles in Scholarly Electronic Communication

Decoupling the scholarly journal

Although many observers have advocated the reform of the scholarly publishing system, improvements to functions like peer review have been adopted sluggishly. We argue that this is due to the tight coupling of the journal system: the system's essential functions of archiving, registration, dissemination, and certification are bundled together and siloed into tens of thousands of individual jour...