The pervasive availability of scientific data from sensors and field observations is posing a challenge to data valets responsible for accumulating and managing them in data repositories. Science collaborations, big and small, are standing up repositories built on commodity clusters need to reliably ingest data constantly and ensure its availability to a wide user community. Workflows provide s...

We analyze the online response of the scientific community to the preprint publication of scholarly articles. We employ a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and April 2011. We study three forms of reactions to these preprints: how they are downloaded on the arXiv.org site, how they are mentioned on the social media site Twitter,...

Scientific documents, research instruments, researchers’ abilities and cooperation among researchers are fundamental resources of scientific research. This paper proposes an approach for effectively networking scientific resources by detecting community structures in self-organized social network, discovering interest in information flow, capturing changes of interests over time, and analyzing ...

A trend in community-based evaluation studies is to include everyone affected by the work, the community, administrators and participants, in their design and implementation. This concept has been accepted by communities and community evaluators, but a concern persists that the scientific integrity, reliability, and validity of these studies are compromised. To address these concerns we present...

Background: The role of refereeing and peer-reading in the ethics of research and publishing is very privileged and vital, and changes have occurred in this important part of scientific communication over the years. Despite the diversity in scientific judgments and the criticisms and challenges that have been brought to its implementation and nature, it is still accepted as a social norm in the...