Scienceography: The study of how science is written

Graham Cormode; S. Muthukrishnan; Jinyun Yan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30347-0_37

Scienceography: The study of how science is written

Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Jinyun Yan

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Scientific literature has itself been the subject of much scientific study, for a variety of reasons: understanding how results are communicated, how ideas spread, and assessing the influence of areas or individuals. However, most prior work has focused on extracting and analyzing citation and stylistic patterns. In this work, we introduce the notion of 'scienceography', which focuses on the writing of science. We provide a first large scale study using data derived from the arXiv e-print repository. Crucially, our data includes the "source code" of scientific papers-the LATEX source-which enables us to study features not present in the "final product", such as the tools used and private comments between authors. Our study identifies broad patterns and trends in two example areas-computer science and mathematics-as well as highlighting key differences in the way that science is written in these fields. Finally, we outline future directions to extend the new topic of scienceography.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Fun with Algorithms - 6th International Conference, FUN 2012, Proceedings
Pages	379-391
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30347-0_37
State	Published - 2012
Event	6th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, FUN 2012 - Venice, Italy Duration: Jun 4 2012 → Jun 6 2012

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	7288 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	6th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, FUN 2012
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Venice
Period	6/4/12 → 6/6/12

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Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Cormode, G., Muthukrishnan, S., & Yan, J. (2012). Scienceography: The study of how science is written. In Fun with Algorithms - 6th International Conference, FUN 2012, Proceedings (pp. 379-391). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7288 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30347-0_37

Scienceography: The study of how science is written. / Cormode, Graham; Muthukrishnan, S.; Yan, Jinyun.
Fun with Algorithms - 6th International Conference, FUN 2012, Proceedings. 2012. p. 379-391 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 7288 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Cormode, G, Muthukrishnan, S & Yan, J 2012, Scienceography: The study of how science is written. in Fun with Algorithms - 6th International Conference, FUN 2012, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 7288 LNCS, pp. 379-391, 6th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms, FUN 2012, Venice, Italy, 6/4/12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30347-0_37

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