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Citation Analysis: A Comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
When faculty members are evaluated, they are judged in part by the impact and quality of their scholarly publications. While all academic institutions look to publication counts and venues as well as the subjective opinions of peers, many hiring, tenure,
Meho, Lokman I., Yang, Kiduk
core  

Software Engineers' Information Seeking Behavior in Change Impact Analysis - An Interview Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Software engineers working in large projects must navigate complex information landscapes. Change Impact Analysis (CIA) is a task that relies on engineers' successful information seeking in databases storing, e.g., source code, requirements, design ...
Alégroth, Emil   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2015
The quality of web sources has been traditionally evaluated using exogenous signals such as the hyperlink structure of the graph. We propose a new approach that relies on endogenous signals, namely, the correctness of factual information provided by the source. A source that has few false facts is considered to be trustworthy.
arxiv  

Bridging the gap between science, policy and stakeholders: Towards sustainable wolf–livestock coexistence in human‐dominated landscapes

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract While the return of wolves (Canis lupus) to many European countries is a conservation milestone, the negative impacts are unevenly distributed across society, placing high pressure on livestock grazing systems. For this perspective, scientists from diverse disciplines and geographical backgrounds reflect on the state of livestock–wolf ...
Emu‐Felicitas Ostermann‐Miyashita   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developments in British Sociology as Shown in British Sociology Journals [PDF]

open access: yes
To provide a factual foundation for understanding of the trajectory of the development in British sociology a content analysis of the journal articles in the main generalist British sociology journals is provided. This contributes both an overall picture,
Charles Crothers
core  

Building capacity in climate change policy analysis and negotiation: methods and technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Capacity building is often cited as the reason “we cannot just pour money into developing countries” and why so many development projects fail because their design does not address local conditions.
Aczel, James   +2 more
core  

Common Foundations for SHACL, ShEx, and PG-Schema [PDF]

open access: yes
Graphs have emerged as an important foundation for a variety of applications, including capturing and reasoning over factual knowledge, semantic data integration, social networks, and providing factual knowledge for machine learning algorithms. To formalise certain properties of the data and to ensure data quality, there is a need to describe the ...
arxiv   +1 more source

How do land use conflicts escalate? Identifying causal mechanisms in a conflict over a biogas plant in Brandenburg, Germany

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The dynamics of land use conflicts have recently received increasing interest in the scholarly debate; however, research thus far has focussed on the causes of different conflict dynamics. In contrast, this paper starts from the assumption that knowledge of the processes by which certain conditions trigger escalation is important for improved ...
Meike Fienitz
wiley   +1 more source

Using a geographical information system to plan a malaria control programme in South Africa

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000
INTRODUCTION: Sustainable control of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is jeopardized by dwindling public health resources resulting from competing health priorities that include an overwhelming acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.
Booman Marlize   +8 more
doaj  

Advancing Sustainability Assessment of Renewable Energy: A Study on Indicator‐to‐Framework Methods and Associated Rule Mining

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Divergent sustainable development perspectives, mathematical model limitations, and varying scenarios contribute to uncertainty in assessing renewable energy sustainability. To tackle these challenges, this study conducts a comprehensive literature review, employs an analogy, and utilizes knowledge discovery techniques with an indicator‐to ...
Shoeib Faraji Abdolmaleki   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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