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One of the main indicators of scientific production is the number of papers published in scholarly journals. Turkey ranks 18th place in the world based on the number of scholarly publications. The objective of this paper is to find out if the monetary support program initiated in 1993 by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) to incentivize researchers and increase the number, impact, and quality of international publications has been effective in doing so.

Purpose: In today's digital humanities research, the main data/information sources used by researchers are collections consisting of digitized documents and data with high resolution, along with machine-readable and actionable metadata associated with these collections. The purpose of this research is to determine the needs and expectations of digital humanities researchers for "collections as data" and to find out to what extent cultural memory institutions meet these needs and expectations. Method: Qualitative methods were used within the scope of the research. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 digital humanities researchers and 16 representatives of cultural memory institutions. The researchers and the representatives of the institutions were asked 20 and 23 questions, respectively, and all interview records were transcribed and their contents were analyzed using MaxQDA, a qualitative data analysis software. Findings: Researchers need access to collections as datasets in machine-readable and machine-actionable formats. While there are a few institutions that can share their collections through protocols or upon request, no institution has yet made their collections available in machine-readable and actionable formats suitable for computational access. To convert their collections, institutions need qualified staff, budget, technical infrastructure, administrative support, cooperation, time, and guidelines. Implications: In order for institutions to organize metadata, digitize collections, and make them accessible to researchers as collections as data, they should create awareness in this regard, receive technical, administrative and financial support, and train qualified personnel. Originality: This study is the first of its kind that identifies the needs, expectations, and barriers regarding the "collections as data" service in Turkey from the perspectives of researchers and cultural memory institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research assessment and incentive systems (RAIS) aim to measure the quality and the impact of scientific studies. For, the quality of research outputs increases not only the welfare of the people but also the socio-economic development and competitiveness of countries. Lately, the quality tends to get overlooked almost completely and the scientific works are assessed solely by the quantitative measures. Researchers are awarded based on some numbers such as numbers of publications or citations. Yet, RAIS based solely on numbers encourage researchers, in time, to develop rent-seeking behaviors. This exploratory case study investigates the effects of existing RAIS in Turkey on the rent-seeking behaviors of academics. It analyzes the changes in academic titles of authors who published papers in a journal with a very low impact factor as well as if they received monetary support from TÜBİTAK. Findings show that a significant portion of the authors was rent-seeking by taking advantage of the deficiencies of the existing systems; that some authors obtained academic titles with only one article published in this journal, which was later removed from the Web of Science (WoS) due to some ethical problems; and that they published articles with one or two authors at most at very high rates to benefit from TÜBİTAK’s support. Yet, they quickly stopped publishing in this journal once it was removed from WoS. Existing RAIS triggering rentseeking behaviors in academics should be discontinued, and, instead, the new ones highlighting the quality of research should be developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Relevance ranking algorithms rank retrieved documents based on the degrees of topical similarity (relevance) between search queries and documents. This paper aims to introduce a new relevance ranking method combining a probabilistic topic modeling algorithm with citation data. Data and Method: We applied this method to the iSearch corpus of c. 435,000 physics papers. We first ran the topic modeling algorithm on titles and summaries of all papers for 65 search queries and obtained the relevance ranking lists. We then used citation data with the existing relevance rankings, thereby incrementally refining the results. The outcome produced better relevance rankings with papers covering various aspects of the topic searched as well as the more marginal ones. Finally, we evaluated the retrieval performance of the proposed method. Findings: Findings suggest that the topic modeling algorithm might sometimes overlook the terms used in different contexts in the papers. However, the fusion of citation data to relevance ranking lists provides additional contextual information, thereby enriching the results further with various papers of higher relevance. Moreover, results can easily be re-ranked. Implications: We argue that once it is tested on dynamic corpora for computational load, robustness, replicability, and scalability, the proposed method can, in time, be used in both local and international information systems such as TR-Dizin, Web of Science, and Scopus. Originality: The proposed method is, as far as we know, the first one that shows that relevance rankings produced with a topic modeling algorithm can be incrementally refined using citation data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This "letter to the editor" aims to contribute to the views on the change of the editorship of the journal Bilgi Dünyası in its first year of publication (2000), as asserted in an opinion paper entitled "Information World: From a Thought to a Scientific Journal (1998-2013)" (Yıldızeli and Bahşişoğlu, 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the important indicators of the level of scientific and technological development of a country is the number and quality of publications produced therein. Such publications listed in international citation indexes tend to function as a leverage to streamline the scientific, human and economic development. Citations to these publications show the contribution of that country to the science in general, too. This paper investigates some of the bibliometric characteristics (impact factors, article influence scores, quartile and percentile values, and h indices) of journals that are published in Turkey and indexed in the Web of Science citation databases. Based on journal impact factors (and the other measures based thereon), a comparative review of the progress between 2006 and 2015 and the impact of Thomson Reuters' regional expansion policy on journals has been carried out. Findings show that the impact factors of journals, although relatively improved, have not increased as much as is desired during this period. The impact of papers published in these journals is well below that of the world average of all journals in their respective subjects. Findings are discussed in relation to Thomson Reuters' regional expansion policy and their implications are interpreted in the context of academic promotion and research assessment policies currently in effect in Turkey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first university-level library schools were opened during the last quarter of the 19th century. The number of such schools has gradually increased during the first half of the 20th century, especially after the Second World War, both in the USA and elsewhere. As information has gained further importance in scientific endeavors and social life, librarianship became a more interdisciplinary field and library schools were renamed as schools of library and information science/ information studies/ information management/information to better reflect the range of education provided. In this paper, we review the major developments in education for library and information science (LIS) and the impact of these developments on the curricula of LIS schools. We then review the programs and courses introduced by some LIS schools to address the data science and data curation issues. We also discuss some of the factors such as "data deluge" and "big data" that might have forced LIS schools to add such courses to their programs. We conclude by observing that "data" has already triggered some curriculum changes in a number of LIS schools in the USA and elsewhere as "Data Science" is becoming an interdisciplinary research field just as "Information Science" has once been (and still is). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article shares with the public the recommendations of the Final Declaration prepared within the scope of the Third (Turkish) National Open Access Workshop organized by ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium), AEKA (ANKOS Open Access and Consortial Archives), YÖK (Higher Education Council), and HÜ BBY (Hacettepe University Department of Information Management). The article urges that as soon as possible the necessary arrangements be made for the acceptance of the free circulation of information--one of the priorities of the European Union's European Research Area-- and for the transition to implementation of open access at the national level--important in order to integrate with the Horizon 2020 project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dr. Müjgân Şan has recently passed away. Professional and academic contributions of Dr. Müjgân Şan are outlined in this memoriam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this study is to examine international publications in the field of theatre using bibliometric analysis methods. For this purpose, scientific articles published in the journals listed in Web of Science are analysed. A total of 8,047 articles published from 1975 to 2021are included in the analysis. Descriptive bibliometric analysis and social network mapping method are used to examine data. According to the analysis, the first three countries that have contributed the most to the field of theatre are the USA, England and Canada. In terms of citations, the most cited articles in the field are also published in the most cited journals in the field. Moreover, the most frequently cited books in the field are related to publications that improve the intellectual structure of the field. In terms of co-author citation analysis, our study shows that the most frequently cited authors are Shakespeare, Brecht, Boal, Schechner and Beckett. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a careful review of studies underlining the impediments in digitization and digital preservation of cultural heritage resources faced by library professionals, archivists and project managers in digitization projects. A systematic and structured literature review based on the conceptual and empirical published studies on digitization and digital preservation is done to sieve out the barriers and challenges of digitization projects. The findings of the study revealed that most digitization projects suffer with impediments such as, inadequate funding, lack of national-level digital preservation policy and absence of technical infrastructure while digitizing and preserving the cultural and heritage resources. The originality of the paper lies in presenting the prominent constraints in digitization and preservation of cultural and heritage resources in consolidated manner otherwise scattered in several case studies. The findings will be of high significance for librarians and digitization project managers at the planning stage of their digitation projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We analyze the prestige of 1,500 scholars in economics, sociology, and management who have Spanish and French institutional affiliations operationalized by their h-index in Scopus and Google Scholar. We use a negative binomial count model to examine how some individual factors affect the h-index from both databases. The results show a non-monotonic relationship between the researchers' career length and their h-index. There is a positive and statistically significant relationship between total research output and the h-index. The share of publications in English over total publications has also a positive and statistically significant effect on the h-index, except in a single case, while the share of publications in other foreign languages does not have such effect. Finally, we found that the effects of the number of citations received by documents in English (international impact) and by those in the vernacular language (local or regional impact) on the h-index vary according to the database, the country, and the discipline in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]