Publikationen

Das Datenportal der National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps) bietet den Partnerhochschulen anhand von über 40 Indikatoren einen aktuellen Überblick über die Promotionsbedingungen und die Situation Promovierender. Es wird regelmäßig um aktuelle Befragungsdaten ergänzt. Die Datenbasis bilden die Antworten der Promovierenden an mehr als 60 promotionsberechtigten deutschen Hochschulen, die an den Nacaps-Befragungen in den Jahren 2019 und 2021 teilnahmen.

Scholarly publishing lives on traditioned terminology that gives meaning to subjects such as authors, inhouse editors and external guest editors, artifacts such as articles, journals, special issues, and collected editions, or practices of acquisition, selection, and review. These subjects, artifacts, and practices ground the constitution of scholarly discourse. And yet, the meaning ascribed to each of these terms shifts, blurs, or is disguised as publishing culture shifts, which becomes manifest in new digital publishing technology, new forms of publishing management, and new forms of scholarly knowledge production. As a result, we may come to over- or underestimate changes in scholarly communication based on traditioned [...]

An Hochschulen und seitens der Wissenschaftspolitik ist die Nachfrage für belastbare Daten über Promovierende und Promovierte in den vergangenen Jahren merkbar gewachsen. Auch das öffentliche Interesse an dieser Gruppe, ihren Promotions- und Lebensbedingungen sowie ihren Karriereverläufen nimmt zu. Zugleich ist der Feldzugang für Studien der empirischen Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung, die diese Themen untersuchen, in den vergangenen Jahren schwieriger geworden. Der Beitrag beschreibt und anlysiert die Strategie der National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps), um in diesem Umfeld eine großangelegte Panel Studie durchführen zu können.

This paper introduces the concept of standard-relevant publications, complementary to standard-essential patents and framed by the concept of knowledge utilization. By analyzing the reference lists of the around 20,000 standards released by ISO, authors of scientific papers cited in standards who are working at German institutions were identified. The institutions include universities, independent research societies, ministerial research institutes and companies. Almost thirty interviews were conducted with the most-cited of these authors. The interviews addressed the processes by which scientific publications come to be referenced in standards, and the motivations, the barriers and the effects of this.

This study investigates the potential of citation analysis of Ph.D. theses to obtain valid and useful early career performance indicators at the level of university departments. For German theses from 1996 to 2018 the suitability of citation data from Scopus and Google Books is studied and found to be sufficient to obtain quantitative estimates of early career researchers’ performance at departmental level in terms of scientific recognition and use of their dissertations as reflected in citations. Scopus and Google Books citations complement each other and have little overlap. Individual theses’ citation counts are much higher for those awarded a dissertation award than others. Departmental level estimates of citation impact agree ...

Cumulative dissertations are doctoral theses comprised of multiple published articles. For studies of publication activity and citation impact of early career researchers it is important to identify these articles and link them to their associated theses. Using a new benchmark data set, this paper reports on experiments of measuring the bilingual textual similarity between, on the one hand, titles and keywords of doctoral theses, and, on the other hand, articles’ titles and abstracts. The tested methods are cosine similarity and L1 distance in the Vector Space Model (VSM) as baselines, the language-indifferent methods Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and trigram similarity, and the language-aware methods fastText and Random Indexing (RI)...