Publikationen

This review of the transparency literature has shown the evolution of the field through the prism of bibliographic and methodological data. In doing so, we have shed light into underlying disparities that go in line with arguments of structural problems and historical relations in socio-political contexts. We have highlighted the irony of the field in researching a topic that, due to determinants beyond the control of scholars (though OA policies may slowly generate a structural change), is in itself little transparent. The blurriness of the state of research in transparency and accountability helps us to address the overall debate of academic production in a critical manner, engaging with issues such as publishing and funding.

Kollaborative Forschung gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung. Durch die Verknüpfung von Kompetenzen und Erfahrungen, die gemeinsame Nutzung kostenintensiver Ressourcen und die Zusammenführung unterschiedlicher disziplinärer Sichtweisen werden Synergieeffekte erzeugt und innovative Forschungsvorhaben befördert. Die Zusammenarbeit von Forschenden beinhaltet jedoch auch Risiken, die auf die Rahmenbedingungen zurückzuführen sind, welche die Zusammenarbeit der Beteiligten kennzeichnen. Das Projekt DEKiF ("Determinanten und Effekte von Kooperationen in homogenen und heterogenen Forschungsverbünden") untersucht im Rahmen unterschiedlicher Teilstudien die Durchführung von Verbundforschung mit dem Ziel einer Kartierung von Kooperationsproblem.

In this study we propose and evaluate a method to automatically identify the journal publications that are related to a Ph.D. thesis using bibliographical data of both items. We build a manually curated ground truth dataset from German cumulative doctoral theses that explicitly list the included publications, which we match with records in the Scopus database. We then test supervised classification methods on the task of identifying the correct associated publications among high numbers of potential candidates using features of the thesis and publication records. The results indicate that this approach results in good match quality in general and with the best results attained by the “random forest” classification algorithm.