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The Global Research Activity Map (GRAM) is an interactive web-based system for visualizing and analyzing worldwide scholarship activity as represented by research topics. The underlying data for GRAM is obtained from Google Scholar academic research profiles and is used to create a weighted topic graph. Nodes correspond to self-reported research topics and edges indicate co-occurring topics in the profiles. The GRAM system supports map-based interactive features, including semantic zooming, panning, and searching. Map overlays can be used to compare human resource investment, displayed as the relative number of active researchers in particular topic areas, as well scholarly output in terms of citations and normalized citation counts. Evaluation of the GRAM system, with the help of university research management stakeholders, reveals interesting patterns in research investment and output for universities across the world (USA, Europe, Asia) and for different types of universities. While some of these patterns are expected, others are surprising. Overall, GRAM can be a useful tool to visualize human resource investment and research productivity in comparison to peers at a local, regional and global scale. Such information is needed by university administrators to identify institutional strengths and weaknesses and to make strategic data-driven decisions.
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REMatch: Research Expert Matching System
We describe a system designed to process, analyze and visualize academic data, from research papers and research proposals to list of courses taught, consulting, internal and external service. This can be helpful in identifying experts in a given field for future collaborations, as well as in putting together strong multi-disciplinary teams to apply for future research funding. Our REMatch system aims to support such tasks by leveraging natural language processing, machine learning, and interactive visualization. Specifically, REMatch provides a functional system that implements in-the-browser, map-based interactive navigation of a large underlying network, supporting semantic zooming, panning, searching, and map overlays. A prototype of the system is evaluated with a small-scale case study.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1839274
- PAR ID:
- 10109417
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- International Symposium on Big Data Visual and Immersive Analytics (BDVA)
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1 to 10
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1109/BDVA.2018.8534021
