From academic to media capital: To what extent does the scientific reputation of universities translate into Wikipedia attention?

IF 2.8 2区 管理学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Adrián A. Díaz-Faes, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Rodrigo Costas
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Universities face increasing demands to improve their visibility, public outreach, and online presence. There is a broad consensus that scientific reputation significantly increases the attention universities receive. However, in most cases estimates of scientific reputation are based on composite or weighted indicators and absolute positions in university rankings. In this study, we adopt a more granular approach to assessment of universities' scientific performance using a multidimensional set of indicators from the Leiden Ranking and testing their individual effects on university Wikipedia page views. We distinguish between international and local attention and find a positive association between research performance and Wikipedia attention which holds for regions and linguistic areas. Additional analysis shows that productivity, scientific impact, and international collaboration have a curvilinear effect on universities' Wikipedia attention. This finding suggests that there may be other factors than scientific reputation driving the general public's interest in universities. Our study adds to a growing stream of work which views altmetrics as tools to deepen science–society interactions rather than direct measures of impact and recognition of scientific outputs.

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从学术资本到媒体资本:大学的科学声誉在多大程度上转化为维基百科的关注?
大学面临着越来越多的要求,以提高他们的知名度、公共宣传和在线形象。一个广泛的共识是,科学声誉显著地增加了大学受到的关注。然而,在大多数情况下,对科学声誉的估计是基于综合或加权指标和大学排名的绝对位置。在这项研究中,我们采用了一种更细致的方法来评估大学的科学表现,使用了来自莱顿排名的多维指标集,并测试了它们对大学维基百科页面浏览量的个别影响。我们区分了国际关注和本地关注,并发现研究绩效和维基百科关注之间存在正相关关系,这适用于地区和语言领域。另外的分析表明,生产力、科学影响和国际合作对大学的维基百科关注度有一个曲线效应。这一发现表明,除了科学声誉之外,可能还有其他因素促使公众对大学产生兴趣。我们的研究增加了越来越多的工作,这些工作将替代指标视为深化科学与社会互动的工具,而不是直接衡量科学产出的影响和认可。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) is a leading international forum for peer-reviewed research in information science. For more than half a century, JASIST has provided intellectual leadership by publishing original research that focuses on the production, discovery, recording, storage, representation, retrieval, presentation, manipulation, dissemination, use, and evaluation of information and on the tools and techniques associated with these processes. The Journal welcomes rigorous work of an empirical, experimental, ethnographic, conceptual, historical, socio-technical, policy-analytic, or critical-theoretical nature. JASIST also commissions in-depth review articles (“Advances in Information Science”) and reviews of print and other media.
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