<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper proposes a <italic>holistic</italic> framework for the development of <italic>models</italic> for the assessment of research activities and their impacts. It distinguishes three dimensions, including in an original way, <italic>data</italic> as a main dimension, together with <italic>theory</italic> and <italic>methodology</italic>. Each dimension of the framework is further characterized by three main building blocks: education, research, and innovation (<italic>theory</italic>); efficiency, effectiveness, and impact (<italic>methodology</italic>); and availability, interoperability, and “unit-free” property (<italic>data</italic>). The different dimensions and their nine constituent building blocks are attributes of an overarching concept, denoted as “quality.” Three additional quality attributes are identified as implementation factors (tailorability, transparency, and openness) and three “enabling” conditions (convergence, mixed methods, and knowledge infrastructures) complete the framework. A framework is required to develop models of metrics. Models of metrics are necessary to assess the meaning, validity, and robustness of metrics. The proposed framework can be a useful reference for the development of the <italic>ethics</italic> of research evaluation. It can act as a <italic>common denominator</italic> for different analytical levels and relevant aspects and is able to embrace many different and heterogeneous streams of literature. Directions for future research are provided.</p></abstract>

A Framework for the Assessment of Research and Its Impacts

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper identifies a need to complement the current rich technical and mathematical research agenda on big data with a more information systems and information science strand, which focuses on the business value of big data. An agenda of research for information systems would explore motives for using big data in real organizational contexts, and consider proposed benefits, such as increased effectiveness and efficiency, production of high-quality products/services, creation of added business value, and stimulation of innovation and design. Impacts of such research on the academic community, the industrial and business world, and policy-makers are discussed.</p></abstract>

Understanding Big Data for Industrial Innovation and Design: The Missing Information Systems Perspective

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0019_s_010_w2aab3b7b3b1b6b1aab1c17b1Aa"><h3>Purpose</h3><p>The late Don R. Swanson was well appreciated during his lifetime as Dean of the Graduate Library School at University of Chicago, as winner of the American Society for Information Science Award of Merit for 2000, and as author of many seminal articles. In this informal essay, I will give my personal perspective on Don’s contributions to science, and outline some current and future directions in literature-based discovery that are rooted in concepts that he developed.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0019_s_011_w2aab3b7b3b1b6b1aab1c17b2Aa"><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>Personal recollections and literature review.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0019_s_012_w2aab3b7b3b1b6b1aab1c17b3Aa"><h3>Findings</h3><p>The Swanson A-B-C model of literature-based discovery has been successfully used by laboratory investigators analyzing their findings and hypotheses. It continues to be a fertile area of research in a wide range of application areas including text mining, drug repurposing, studies of scientific innovation, knowledge discovery in databases, and bioinformatics. Recently, additional modes of discovery that do not follow the A-B-C model have also been proposed and explored (e.g. so-called storytelling, gaps, analogies, link prediction, negative consensus, outliers, and revival of neglected or discarded research questions).</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0019_s_013_w2aab3b7b3b1b6b1aab1c17b4Aa"><h3>Research limitations</h3><p>This paper reflects the opinions of the author and is not a comprehensive nor technically based review of literature-based discovery.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0019_s_014_w2aab3b7b3b1b6b1aab1c17b5Aa"><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>The general scientific public is still not aware of the availability of tools for literature-based discovery. Our Arrowsmith project site maintains a suite of discovery tools that are free and open to the public (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu)">http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu)</ext-link>, as does BITOLA which is maintained by Dmitar Hristovski (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://http://ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si/bitola)">http://http://ibmi.mf.uni-lj.si/bitola)</ext-link>, and Epiphanet which is maintained by Trevor Cohen (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://epiphanet.uth.tmc.edu/)">http://epiphanet.uth.tmc.edu/)</ext-link>. Bringing user-friendly tools to the public should be a high priority, since even more than advancing basic research in informatics, it is vital that we ensure that scientists actually use discovery tools and that these are actually able to help them make experimental discoveries in the lab and in the clinic.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0019_s_015_w2aab3b7b3b1b6b1aab1c17b6Aa"><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>This paper discusses problems and issues which were inherent in Don’s thoughts during his life, including those which have not yet been fully taken up and studied systematically.</p></sec></abstract>

Rediscovering Don Swanson:The Past, Present and Future of Literature-based Discovery

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0021_s_006_w2aab3b7b5b1b6b1aab1c17b1Aa"><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This paper aims to better understand a large number of papers in the medical domain of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related diseases using the machine reading approach.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0021_s_007_w2aab3b7b5b1b6b1aab1c17b2Aa"><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>The study uses the topic modeling method to obtain an overview of the field, and employs open information extraction to further comprehend the field at a specific fact level.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0021_s_008_w2aab3b7b5b1b6b1aab1c17b3Aa"><h3>Findings</h3><p>Several topics within the AD research field are identified, such as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which can help answer the question of how AIDS/HIV and AD are very different yet related diseases.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0021_s_009_w2aab3b7b5b1b6b1aab1c17b4Aa"><h3>Research limitations</h3><p>Some manual data cleaning could improve the study, such as removing incorrect facts found by open information extraction.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0021_s_010_w2aab3b7b5b1b6b1aab1c17b5Aa"><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>This study uses the literature to answer specific questions on a scientific domain, which can help domain experts find interesting and meaningful relations among entities in a similar manner, such as to discover relations between AD and AIDS/HIV.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0021_s_011_w2aab3b7b5b1b6b1aab1c17b6Aa"><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>Both the overview and specific information from the literature are obtained using two distinct methods in a complementary manner. This combination is novel because previous work has only focused on one of them, and thus provides a better way to understand an important scientific field using data-driven methods.</p></sec></abstract>

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Using Machine Reading to Understand Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases from the Literature

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0020_s_005_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b1Aa"><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This paper proposes an expert assignment method for scientific project review that considers both accuracy and impartiality. As impartial and accurate peer review is extremely important to ensure the quality and feasibility of scientific projects, enhanced methods for managing the process are needed.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0020_s_006_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b2Aa"><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>To ensure both accuracy and impartiality, we design four criteria, the reviewers’ <italic>fitness degree</italic>, <italic>research intensity</italic>, <italic>academic association</italic>, and potential <italic>conflict of interest</italic>, to express the characteristics of an appropriate peer review expert. We first formalize the expert assignment problem as an optimization problem based on the designed criteria, and then propose a randomized algorithm to solve the expert assignment problem of identifying reviewer adequacy.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0020_s_007_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b3Aa"><h3>Findings</h3><p>Simulation results show that the proposed method is quite accurate and impartial during expert assignment.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0020_s_008_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b4Aa"><h3>Research limitations</h3><p>Although the criteria used in this paper can properly show the characteristics of a good and appropriate peer review expert, more criteria/conditions can be included in the proposed scheme to further enhance accuracy and impartiality of the expert assignment.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0020_s_009_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b5Aa"><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>The proposed method can help project funding agencies (e.g. the National Natural Science Foundation of China) find better experts for project peer review.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis-2017-0020_s_010_w2aab3b7b4b1b6b1aab1c17b6Aa"><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first publication that proposes an algorithm that applies an impartial approach to the project review expert assignment process. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.</p></sec></abstract>

An Accurate and Impartial Expert Assignment Method for Scientific Project Review

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A Framework for the Assessment of Research and Its Impacts

Understanding Big Data for Industrial Innovation and Design: The Missing Information Systems Perspective

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Rediscovering Don Swanson:The Past, Present and Future of Literature-based Discovery

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Using Machine Reading to Understand Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases from the Literature

An Accurate and Impartial Expert Assignment Method for Scientific Project Review

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