Essays about: "scientific publishing"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words scientific publishing.

  1. 1. Data Management and Publishing Behaviour in Academic Archaeology : A Study at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala University

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Frida Burén; [2022]
    Keywords : Archaeology; Research Data; Data Publishing; Data Management; Behaviour Analysis; arkeologi; forskningsdata; datapublicering; datahantering; beteendeanalys;

    Abstract : This study looks into researchers’ data management and publishing behaviours within archaeology by interviewing researchers in the field and data management and publishing specialists. It takes a socio-cultural perspective, and the aim is to gain an understanding of the elements influencing the decision to publish research data within the field and what the current publishing needs there are for researchers in archaeology. READ MORE

  2. 2. Refuted by Reputable Sources : the Demarcation of Science from Pseudoscience through the Prism of Wikipedia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskap

    Author : Sárka Erben Johansson; [2021]
    Keywords : Information science; bibliometrics; citation analysis; Wikipedia; demarcation problem; pseudoscience; trust; scholarly communication; scholarly publishing; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how the distinction between science and pseudoscience is mediated on Wikipedia as a proxy for how this is communicated to the general public overall. Currently one of the most visited places on the web, Wikipedia is increasingly considered trustworthy, although relatively little is known about its sources. READ MORE

  3. 3. When outputs of artistic research meet academic infrastructures : Antelopes in the horse pen

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    Author : Annika Wahlström; [2021]
    Keywords : Artistic research; scholarly communication; academic publishing; institutional repositories; publishing practices;

    Abstract : Artistic research is a relatively new and understudied topic in scholarly communication within Library and information science. This knowledge deficit, combined with ill-fitting systems and categories, maintains the status of artistic research as something mysterious and different. READ MORE

  4. 4. Consumer Research in the 2000s and 2010s: A Quantitative Assessment and Qualitative Review

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : William Hagströmer; [2020]
    Keywords : consumer research; consumer culture theory; bibliometric mapping; VOS; VOSviewer; scientific fields; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis presents and analyses the results of a bibliometric mapping study of the field of consumer research between 2000 and 2019, aiming to provide a simultaneously descriptive and analytical account of consumer research that identifies the overall structure of the field, as well as the major sub-specializations within it. By utilizing Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory and sociology of science, I analyse the central tendencies exhibited by consumer researchers with regards to the conventions they follow, the literatures they draw from and the way they relate to each other’s texts. READ MORE

  5. 5. Tales Told Through Translation: The art that fosters shared imaginaries between translator and ethnographer identities

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Matthew Short; [2020]
    Keywords : literary translators; creative ethnography; translation studies; ethnofiction; imagination; identity construction; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Having spent so many of my free hours immersed in the worlds of translated fiction, I set out to create a research project designed to better understand the entanglements of the imagination behind this art. This thesis aims to explore how literary translators construct their identity and how multiple forces create instability in the professional self. READ MORE