Finding experts in academics as well as in enterprises is an important practical problem. Both manual and automated approaches are employed and have their own pros and cons. On one hand, the manual approaches need extensive human efforts but the quality of data is good, on the other hand, the automated approaches normally do not need human efforts but the quality of service is not as good as in...

Community effects on the behaviour of individuals, the community itself and other communities can be observed in a wide range of applications. This is true in scientific research, where communities of researchers have increasingly to justify their impact and progress to funding agencies. Previous work has tried to explain these phenomena by analysing co-citation graphs with methods from social ...

A problem currently faced is the inability of an organisation to know the competences that the organisation masters, thereby bringing forth greater difficulties to the decision-making process, planning and team formation. In the scientific environment, this problem prejudices the multi-disciplinary research and communities creation. We propose a technique to create/suggest scientific web commun...

Professor of Physics, Institute for Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences and Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, working on the development and uses of electron accelerators; Vice Chairman, Committee of Soviet Scientists for Peace against the Nuclear Threat. Dr. Kapitza is a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and moderator of a Soviet television program on science and soci...

GRSciColl, the Registry of Scientific Collections, is a comprehensive, community-curated clearinghouse collections information originally developed by Consortium Barcode Life (CBOL) and hosted Smithsonian Institution until 2019. It now maintained in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) registry (see this news item). GRSciColl aims to improve access about institutions, scientific they...

How does the published scientific literature used by scientific community? Many previous studies make analysis on the static usage data. In this research, we propose the concept of dynamic usage data. Based on the platform of realtime.springer.com, we have been monitoring and recording the dynamic usage data of Scientometrics articles round the clock. Our analysis find that papers published in ...