EAGER: Using Search Engines to Track Impact of Unsung Heroes of Big Data Revolution, Data Creators

在复杂数据的洪流中，有效的数据交换机制对科学（和社会）越来越重要。数据产生的速度及其复杂性意味着大量数据往往没有得到数据生产者的充分分析，由于其迅速传播，广泛的社会正在参与其分析。然而，当注意力转移到数据集成商和分析人员时，这种模型有忽视原始数据创建者输入的风险。目前的信息传播和科学荣誉分配模式，基于同行评议的出版物和以引用形式正式承认第三方贡献，偏向于参与知识创造和传播后期阶段的知名科学家和研究中心。我们建议使用无偏见的互联网搜索来识别研究文献中数据集和资源的未署名使用，允许数据创建者和参与数据创建早期阶段的研究人员为他们的工作邀功。利用机器学习和文本挖掘技术，PI寻求从通用搜索引擎的嘈杂结果中提取相关信息，并开发易于使用的接口，供公众使用这些资源，以补充官方文献计量资源。接受和引用偏差对研究人员的职业生涯有重大影响，而不是在资助和出版的中心焦点，这通常也是研究力量更多样化的地方。首先，同行评议中被拒绝的可能性明显偏向于名气不大的科学家和研究强度较低的机构的科学家。这些偏差不太可能影响数据创建，因为数据库通常接受未经同行评审的数据，并且数据的价值可以通过其使用来衡量。同样的偏见也会影响引用的数量，人们倾向于引用更著名、更有名望的科学家，或者引用经常被邀请的评论，而只有顶尖的科学家才会被邀请撰写评论。因此，与一般的科学家群体相比，无论是在个人方面还是在他们工作的机构方面，出版物和引用都严重偏向于已经得到认可的科学家，这些科学家代表的群体多样性较低。这种偏见影响了在最好的研究机构的紧密合作网络之外工作的年轻科学家的职业和获得资助的能力，并造成了一个典型的富人越来越富，穷人越来越穷的循环。新的基于互联网的信息交换范式已经对研究人员产生了深远的影响。能够在公众的视野中取得成果。这一建议的目标是进一步减轻发表和引用偏倚的方法，不是通过直接解决这个问题，而是通过开发更多评估科学贡献的开放途径。

Efficient mechanisms of data exchange are increasingly central to science (and society) in the midst of the deluge of complex data. The pace of data production and its complexity mean that a large amount of data is often not adequately analyzed by the data producers, and thanks to its rapid dissemination, the broad community is participating in its analysis. This model, however, carries a risk of neglecting the input of the original data creators, as attention shifts to data integrators and analyzers. The current paradigm of information dissemination and assigning credit in science, based on peer-reviewed publications and formal acknowledgment of third-party contributions in the form of citations, is biased toward high-profile, well-known scientists and research centers who participate in the latter stages of knowledge creation and dissemination. We propose to use unbiased internet searches to identify uncredited use of datasets and resources in research literature, allowing data creators and researchers participating in early stages of data creation to claim credit for their work. Using machine-learning and text-mining techniques, the PI seeks to extract relevant information from noisy results of general-purpose search engines and develop easy-to-use interfaces for public use of such resources to supplement official bibliometric resources.Acceptance and citation biases have a significant impact on careers of researchers outside the central foci of funding and publications, which are also typically places with more-diverse research forces. First, the probability of rejection in peer review is significantly biased against less-famous scientists and those at less-research-intensive institutions. These biases are less likely to affect data creation as databases typically accept data without peer review and the value of data can be measured by its use. The same biases affect number of citations, where people tend to cite more-famous, established scientists, or cite reviews that are often invited and only leading scientists would have been invited to write the review. As a result, both publications and citations are heavily biased toward already-recognized scientists that represent less-diverse populations, both in personal terms and in terms of the institutions where they work, as compared to the general population of scientists. Such biases affect careers and ability to obtaining grant funding for young scientist operating outside of the tight collaboration networks at best research institutions and creates a classical rich getting richer and poor getting poorer loop. The new internet-based information exchange paradigm has already had a profound effect on researchers? ability to getting their results in prominent, public view. This proposal aims at approaches that would further alleviate publication and citation bias, not by addressing it directly, but by developing more openways of evaluating contributions to science.