A computational system that evaluates creativity needs guidance on what creativity actually is. It is by no means straightforward to provide a computer with a formal definition of creativity; no such definition yet exists and viewpoints in creativity literature vary as to what the key components of creativity are considered to be. This work combines several viewpoints for a more general consens...

We describe the VTeX Language Editing Dataset of Academic Texts (LEDAT), a dataset of text extracts from scientific papers that were edited by professional native English language editors at VTeX. The goal of the LEDAT is to provide a large data resource for the development of language evaluation and grammar error correction systems for the scientific community. We describe the data collection ...

The Council of Australian Directors of Academic Development (CADAD) welcomes the opportunity to make this submission in response to the discussion paper, Development of Performance Measurement Instruments in Higher Education. While this is a response to one of the three papers released concurrently by DEEWR, it may be read alongside the discussion papers, Assessment of Generic Skills and Review...

EvolutionWorks supports exploratory browsing of the academic paper citation network with an animated and zoom-able visualization that helps researchers explore the conceptual space that emerges from the relationships between academic papers. Metaphorically speaking, a researcher starts out with the seed of an idea that will grow into an unwieldy set of potentially useful papers that the researc...

In this study, we propose a novel way to explore the patterns of people’s visits to academic articles. About 3.4 million links to referral source of visitors of 1432 papers published in the journal of PeerJ are collected and analyzed. We find that at least 57% visits are from external referral sources, among which General Search Engine, Social Network, and News & Blog are the top three categori...

BACKGROUND In the United States, female physicians working in academic medical practices are less likely to achieve the academic rank of associate professor or professor than are male physicians of comparable seniority. Lack of mentoring has been suggested as a possible contributor to this difference. METHODS In this paper, we describe a facilitated peer mentorship pilot program that was deve...

BACKGROUND Scientific publication is a vital mission of medical schools and it is important to periodically document how well schools fulfil this mission. AIMS This study aimed to analyse the publication record of Libyan medical schools in international journals indexed in PubMed between 1988 and 2007. METHODS Medline was searched using PubMed for publications affiliated to Libya during 198...

Computer generated academic papers have been used to expose a lack of thorough human review at several computer science conferences. We assess the problem of classifying such documents. After identifying and evaluating several quantifiable features of academic papers, we apply methods from machine learning to build a binary classifier. In tests with two hundred papers, the resulting classifier ...

Bibliometrics is successful in measuring impact, because the target is clearly defined: the publishing scientist who is still active and working. Thus, citations are a target-oriented metric which measures impact on science. In contrast, societal impact measurements based on altmetrics are as a rule intended to measure impact in a broad sense on all areas of society (e.g. science, culture, poli...