Leveraging citation networks to generate narrative visualizations of scholars’ careers

Portenoy, Jason; West, Jevin

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Title

Leveraging citation networks to generate narrative visualizations of scholars’ careers

Author(s)

Portenoy, Jason; West, Jevin

Issue Date

2016-03-15

Keyword(s)

• Information Visualization
• Dynamic Network Visualization
• Citation Networks
• Narrative Visualization
• Evaluating Scholarly Impact

Abstract

We present an approach for generating dynamic narrative visualizations of scholars' careers. This approach includes an animated node-link diagram which shows the citation network accumulated around the researcher over the course of the career, with nodes and links appearing as the representation of the career progresses. Additional data provide more richness to the narrative, including timelines of key indicators, career milestones, and excerpts from qualitative interviews with the scholars. The intended audiences for this work include the scholars, who can enjoy and gain insight from a new way of looking back on their careers, and funding agencies, who have an interest in finding ways to evaluate the impact that their scholars have had.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

IConference 2016 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89399

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/16572

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