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The average data scientist is an outlier achiever in an information science department

Bergman, Ofer; Gradovitch, Noa; Israeli, Tamar

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Title
The average data scientist is an outlier achiever in an information science department
Author(s)
  • Bergman, Ofer
  • Gradovitch, Noa
  • Israeli, Tamar
Issue Date
2024-10-16
Keyword(s)
  • Data science
  • Information science
  • Publications
  • Citations
  • Education
  • Bibliometrics
  • Standards
Abstract
The aim of this study was to test whether data science and information science have similar or different publication and citation standards. In order to test this, we applied serpAPI to compare one hundred random Google Scholar data science profiles to their equivalents – one hundred information science profiles. The results indicate that: (a) The yearly average number of data scientist publications (15.70) was over three times higher than for information scientist (4.26). (b) The average citation per paper for data scientists (23.06) was over 4 times higher than the average for information scientists (5.70). (c) The total number of citations of papers published in 2021 for data scientists (334.54) was over 14 times higher than for information scientists (23.38). These results clearly indicate that when making academic career decisions, data scientists should be evaluated according to data science standards which are very different from information science standards.
Publisher
Association for Library and Information Science Education
Series/Report Name or Number
Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2024
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
  • Conference Paper
  • Presentation
Language
eng
Handle URL
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130754
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1689
Copyright and License Information
  • Copyright 2024 Ofer Bergman, Noa Gradovitch, Tamar Israeli
  • This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference: ALISE 2024 PRIMARY
The Ethics and Evolution of Truth and Information