Scientometrics
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Volume 89: Issue 1
Science models as value-added services for scholarly information systems
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Peter Mutschke GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Lennéstr. 30, 53111 Bonn, Germany

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Philipp Mayr GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Lennéstr. 30, 53111 Bonn, Germany

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Philipp Schaer GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Lennéstr. 30, 53111 Bonn, Germany

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York Sure GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Lennéstr. 30, 53111 Bonn, Germany

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349–364
Online Publication Date:
19 Jun 2011
Publication Date:
01 Oct 2011
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0430-x
Keywords:
Retrieval system; Value-added services; Science models; IR; Re-ranking; Evaluation
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Abstract

The paper introduces scholarly Information Retrieval (IR) as a further dimension that should be considered in the science modeling debate. The IR use case is seen as a validation model of the adequacy of science models in representing and predicting structure and dynamics in science. Particular conceptualizations of scholarly activity and structures in science are used as value-added search services to improve retrieval quality: a co-word model depicting the cognitive structure of a field (used for query expansion), the Bradford law of information concentration, and a model of co-authorship networks (both used for re-ranking search results). An evaluation of the retrieval quality when science model driven services are used turned out that the models proposed actually provide beneficial effects to retrieval quality. From an IR perspective, the models studied are therefore verified as expressive conceptualizations of central phenomena in science. Thus, it could be shown that the IR perspective can significantly contribute to a better understanding of scholarly structures and activities.

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