Community of Scientists

Building a Community of Data Scientists: An Explorative Analysis

*1 Secretariat of Chinese National Committee for CODATA, Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 South 4 Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, China Email: [email protected] or [email protected] 2 Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4 South 4 Street, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, China 3 China Guanghua Science and Technology Foundation

Electronic communication in a geographically dispersed community of forensic scientists

Electronic communication creates new pathways for knowledge sharing, through e-mail, listservers, electronic repositories of information, and web-based forums. This study focuses on two questions in the context of electronic communication in a distributed knowledge intensive community: (1) How do individuals in the community seek answers to their questions? and (2) Why do other individuals answ...

Scientists Search : Scientists

By the scientists, for the scientists

My association with the JCB began very early in my scientific career. In fact, it predated my understanding that there would even be a scientific career. In the mid-1970s while still an undergraduate, the JCB published my very first paper, a contribution noted perhaps less so for its reporting the characterization of the first known protein in plant cell walls than for a footnote that called at...

Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?

This paper explores the relationship between wages and the scientific orientation of R&D organizations. Firms who adopt a science-oriented research approach (i.e., “Science”) allow their researchers to pursue and publish an individual research agenda.. The adoption of Science may be associated with a “taste” for Science on the part of researchers (a Preference effect) and/or as a “ticket of adm...