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Mapping scientific communities to scale-up ethnographies

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Theresa Velden,

Carl LagozeAuthors Info & Claims

iConference '12: Proceedings of the 2012 iConference

Pages 563 - 564

https://doi.org/10.1145/2132176.2132289

Published: 07 February 2012 Publication History

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We will present the multistep process for generating bibliometric mappings of research fields and their community structure, a process that we have developed using a combination of network analysis and ethnographic field studies of scientific communities. We suggest that such maps are useful to support the strategic sampling of ethnographic field sites and the transparent scaling-up of ethnographic findings for the comparative study of collaboration and communication practices across scientific fields.

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Mapping scientific communities to scale-up ethnographies
1. Applied computing
  1. Law, social and behavioral sciences
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Discrete mathematics
    1. Graph theory

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iConference '12: Proceedings of the 2012 iConference

February 2012

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ISBN:9781450307826

DOI:10.1145/2132176

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Jens-Erik Mai
University of Toronto

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