Beams of particles and papers: How digital preprint archives shape authorship and credit

Delfanti, Alessandro

doi:10.1177/0306312716659373

Cited by 25 publications

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“…This seems to have happened rather early in some cases and anyway independently from ArXiv's adoption of a web 2.0 setting. In this respect, the vision of ArXiv as a founding ground for physicists' accreditation within their community results to be appropriate, not so much as the elegant proposal of a database having a legitimizing role for itself among physics researchers [13], but rather as an actual catalyst for web 2.0 scholarly exchanges within astrophysics and physics.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, it has been maintained that "astrophysicists have limited engagement with Web 2.0 technologies", while the role of "email networks" for communication has been stressed, in an overall setting where "face-to-face interaction remains an essential part of the collaborative process" [25]. This has later been confirmed by [13,33] (the former in a specific context, the latter for high energy physicists).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Astrophysicists and physicists as creators of ArXiv-based commenting resources for their research communities. An initial survey

Marra

2018

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This paper conveys the outcomes of what results to be the first, though initial, overview of commenting platforms and related 2.0 resources born within and for the astrophysical community (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016). Experiences were added, mainly in the physics domain, for a total of twenty-two major items, including four epijournals -and four supplementary resources, thus casting some light onto an unexpected richness and consonance of endeavours.These experiences rest almost entirely on the contents of the database ArXiv, which adds to its merits that of potentially setting the grounds for web 2.0 resources, and research behaviours, to be explored.Most of the experiences retrieved are UK-and US-based, but the resulting picture is international, as various European countries, China and Australia have been actively involved. Final remarks about creation patterns and outcome of these resources are outlined. The results integrate the previous studies according to which the web 2.0 is presently of limited use for communication in astrophysics and vouch for a role of researchers in the shaping of their own professional communication tools that is greater than expected. Collaterally, some aspects of ArXiv's recent pathway towards partial inclusion of web 2.0 features are touched upon. Further investigation is hoped for.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Astrophysicists and physicists as creators of ArXiv-based commenting resources for their research communities. An initial survey

Marra

2018

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“…Despite competition between LHC collaborations, openness in scholarly communication is characteristic in HEP. The preprint server culture enables scientists to share ideas and results freely and immediately [23,32]. In her ethnographic study, Velden [56] illustrates the openness that characterizes scholarly communication in HEP.…”

Section: Hep Cern and The Lhc Collaborationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing for Reproducibility

Feger

Dallmeier-Tiessen

Schmidt

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Reproducibility should be a cornerstone of scientific research and is a growing concern among the scientific community and the public. Understanding how to design services and tools that support documentation, preservation and sharing is required to maximize the positive impact of scientific research. We conducted a study of user attitudes towards systems that support data preservation in High Energy Physics, one of science's most data-intensive branches. We report on our interview study with 12 experimental physicists, studying requirements and opportunities in designing for research preservation and reproducibility. Our findings suggest that we need to design for motivation and benefits in order to stimulate contributions and to address the observed scalability challenge. Therefore, researchers' attitudes towards communication, uncertainty, collaboration and automation need to be reflected in design. Based on our findings, we present a systematic view of user needs and constraints that define the design space of systems supporting reproducible practices. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI; Collaborative and social computing systems and tools.

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“…community originated in the field of physics, more precisely in the subfield of high energy physics (HEP). In high energy physics papers are generally submitted to an academic journal only after the phase of intense academic debate is concluded Delfanti (2016). Formal publication is actually not very interesting to the active scholars in the field, and mainly serves a filing function and credit gathering function.…”

Section: The Two Publication Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is operated by a limited number of people and funded entirely through grants. It contains 99% of all written research output in HEP Delfanti (2016). At its conception it was merely an email based reflection of an existing practice amongst practitioners of HEP.…”

Section: Arxivmentioning

confidence: 99%