In recent years bibliographic analysis of research performance became a global hype. Physicists, Computer scientists, Organisational scientists, Social scientists, Librarians, etc. try to utilize given resources of bibliographic databases and computer power that enabled researchers to grasp these huge datasets. There are different ways how to analyse these data. Some see the bibliographic data as solid technical playground, others as fascinating quantification of researchers daily reality. The perspective of our interdisciplinary team tries to join these different views, by joining quantitative analysis with social theories and sensitivity to social reality. Several approaches to analyse publication activity of researchers in Slovenia, as small scientific community, is presented. The presentation is mainly based on the results obtained by three methods: i) clustering of symbolic data applied on distributions of collaboration on the level of scientific disciplines, ii) modelling of network dynamics with SIENA, where models of preferential attachment and small world were tested, and iii) multilevel analysis with scientific productivity and excellence as dependent variables. The analyses are performed on co-authorship network of all Slovenian researchers (around 20000) affiliated into 72 scientific disciplines which are nested into 7 research fields. In the period 1986-2010 these researchers published around one million publications.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 34488413Franc Mali is a member of the editioral board of the leading scientific journal for social studies of science and technology (official journal of EASST) 'Science & technology studies'. http://www.sciencetechnologystudies.org/boar
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Anuška Ferligoj is a member of the editorial board of the prominent methodological journal Methodolodology (IF=1.935). https://us.hogrefe.com/products/journals/methodology/methodology
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine