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Proposed Project onMicrosoft Academic Search

Cyberinfrastructure WorkshopOctober 16 2012 Chicago

Geoffrey Fox gcf@indiana.edu (Indiana)

Russell Funk funk@umich.edu (Michigan)

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Academic Search I• Make available data and services on data allowing– Customizable use and integration– Platform for new text analysis e.g. new topic model, nifty new LDA– existing services with customizable input (e.g. key words)

• Possible uses– Address issues with current rating systems with open rater– Student choosing university– University choosing areas or faculty– Journal or conference editor choosing referees– Testing new algorithms and models– Evaluation of funding success– Research on nature of publication & citations versus time and

field

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Academic Search II• Transparent results exposing sources of data and analysis

assumptions and biases• Byproduct: Set of “researchers” with a model of their employment

etc.• Future challenge: linking this database with other databases such as

patents, employment• What can we “look at” legally• Research Questions– How to identify transformative research– What type of organizations lead to transformative research– Questions on value of interdisciplinary research– Gender and ethnic questions relating to time to tenure, selection

of research area etc.