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Declining fertility is one of the defining policy questions of the next decade, and increasingly, what policymakers know about it is shaped by AI-synthesising the evidence base. But ask such a tool about reproduction and the answer depends…
We introduce UISTful, a system that turns reading activity into a collective portrait of a scholarly community. Readers explore a semantic globe of UIST papers and authors while the system records private reading traces that can be…
Europe is experiencing prolonged slow growth, resulting in part from a shortage of disruptive innovations that has locked its industry into a middle technology trap. Although greater investment and deeper integration among EU member states…
In this paper, we explore user experience and perception of serendipity in information seeking for digital collections through a human-centered design lens. Beginning with an exploratory scoping literature review, we collated the…
The journal is a seventeenth-century technology asked to do four modern jobs at once: disseminate results, certify their quality, allocate scholarly attention, and confer career credit. It does none of them well. Pre-publication peer review…
Academic output is produced across a fragmented toolchain: literature discovery in one application, reference management in another, writing in a LaTeX editor, formatting against venue templates by hand, and submission through yet another…
Shared data accelerates scientific progress. Here, I describe the ipseome -- the largest free and open dataset on the topic of human identity. The dataset is designed as reusable research infrastructure, with publicly accessible data…
The global development of Library and Information Science (LIS) is influenced by various factors such as the economy, society, culture, discipline, tradition, and more. Consequently, the research methods of LIS vary greatly among countries.…
Research in the social sciences has shown that there are gender differences in the selection of research methods, with women often opting for qualitative methods while men prefer quantitative methods. However, it is important to consider…
We present Charlie, an on-premise multi-agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for structured evidential processing in digital forensic environments. Contemporary forensic workflows must handle large volumes of heterogeneous and…
In this research, I analyze the gender dynamics of the global citation elite using annual top 2% Stanford/Elsevier lists for 2019-2024. My database includes 1.22 million person-year observations (N=1,221,363), which corresponds to 465,707…
Large language models can generate polished scientific text that includes unsupported claims, allowing hallucinations to enter the archival record. Assessing this risk via technical statements is difficult and often requires expert…
The transmission chains (sanad) of Islamic Hadith literature encode relationships among tens of thousands of historical narrators whose biographical records are dispersed across independently maintained digital databases that share no…
Much of written musical heritage is preserved and digitised at memory institutions: libraries, museums, and archives. Owing to their collection structures, sheet music tends to be concentrated in large subsets that are defined as…
While much attention has been paid to journals transitioning toward Diamond Open Access (OA), comparatively little is known about those moving in the opposite direction. We introduce the concept of "diamond fractures"--instances in which…
The present study analyzed over 26,000 research articles published between 1991 and 2021 in twenty-one major LIS (Library and Information Science) journals, using the machine learning (ML) approach to categorize the research methods used by…
When editorial boards resign from their journals and publishers and declare their independence, two competing journals can result: the original journal under a new editorial board (a "zombie" journal), and a new journal established by the…
This paper presents preliminary findings from a UKRI-funded Metascience project comparing three LLM-based approaches, GPT-4o, Mistral, and a bespoke algorithm, DSIT-Taxonomies, for extracting and classifying research entities from funding…
Author-level submission quotas are increasingly used to control growing peer-review load. Recent coauthorship-sensitive quota rules improve over fixed per-author limits by reducing the quota cost of multi-author submissions, often using…
Scientists' topic choices strongly influence both individual careers and the advancement of the scientific frontier. While a sizeable body of literature shows that specialisation in a few topics benefits individual careers and fosters…