NDLI: Visual exploration of academic career paths

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Wu, M.Q.Y. Faris, R. Kwan-Liu Ma
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA (Wu, M.Q.Y.; Kwan-Liu Ma) \|\| Sociology Dept., Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA (Faris, R.)
Abstract	Online bibliographic databases have become widely available and are important resources to scientific researchers. These databases store rich information and many evolve into digital libraries. Using a bibliographic database of a specific discipline, we can extract a co-authorship and citation network of individual professionals. This allows for the study of patterns in scholarly contributions as well as for the exploration of scientific disputes associated with an individuals career. We have designed a visualization tool, which we call PathWay, to discover and understand patterns and trends in the bibliographic data over a selected period of time. With PathWay, we conducted case studies on a bibliography of approximately 400,000 scientists in physics over a 26 year time period. In this paper, we show how PathWay can be used to characterize one's academic career path in terms of the publication record, conduct comparative studies that would be difficult to do with conventional search methods, and also provide a way to gain insight into the emergence and the career implications of the scientific disputes associated with publications.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc.
Starting Page	779
Ending Page	786
File Size	195715
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450322409
DOI	10.1145/2492517.2492638
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-08-25
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	ACM and IEEE
Subject Keyword	Visualization Engineering profession Navigation Social network services dispute network citation network Bibliographic database information visualization trend discovery and analysis coauthor network Bibliographies Data visualization Collaboration social network analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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