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Understanding the importance of SHAPE to the UK research ecosystem Open

Hélène Draux, Briony Fane, Daniel Hook, Juergen Wastl, Philip Lewis , et al. · 2025

The UK has a long-established reputation for excellence in research across a broad range of fields, but in recent years, there has been greater emphasis on STEM investment and greater recognition of the UK's success in STEM. This paper exa…

Complex phases in quantum mechanics Open

Carl M. Bender, Daniel Hook · 2024

Schrödinger's equation is a local differential equation and boundary conditions are required to determine the solution uniquely. Depending on the choice of boundary conditions, a given Hamiltonian may describe several different physically …

The Rise and Fall of the Initial Era Open

Simon Porter, Daniel Hook · 2024

Bibliographic data is a rich source of information that goes beyond the use cases of location and citation -- it also encodes both cultural and technological context. For most of its existence, the scholarly record has changed slowly and h…

Complex phases in quantum mechanics Open

Carl M. Bender, Daniel Hook · 2024

Hamilton's equations of motion are local differential equations and boundary conditions are required to determine the solution uniquely. Depending on the choice of boundary conditions, a Hamiltonian may thereby describe several different p…

Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science Open

Michele Avissar-Whiting, Frédérique Belliard, Stefano Bertozzi, Amy Brand, Katherine Brown , et al. · 2024

Peer review is an important part of the scientific process, but traditional peer review at journals is coming under increased scrutiny for its inefficiency and lack of transparency. As preprints become more widely used and accepted, they r…

PT-symmetric quantum mechanics Open

Carl M. Bender, Daniel Hook · 2023

It is generally assumed that a Hamiltonian for a physically acceptable quantum system (one that has a positive-definite spectrum and obeys the requirement of unitarity) must be Hermitian. However, a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian can also define…

Advancing the culture of peer review with preprints Open

Michele Avissar-Whiting, Frédérique Belliard, Stefano Bertozzi, Amy Brand, Katherine Brown , et al. · 2023

Preprints enable new forms of peer review that have the potential to be more thorough, inclusive, and collegial. In December 2022, 80 researchers and representatives of funders, institutions, preprint servers, journals, indexers, and revie…

Recategorising research: Mapping from FoR 2008 to FoR 2020 in Dimensions Open

Simon Porter, Lezan Hawizy, Daniel Hook · 2023

In 2020 the Australia New Zealand Standard Research Classification Fields of Research Codes (ANZSRC FoR codes) were updated by their owners. This has led the sector to need to update their systems of reference and has caused suppliers work…

The pandemic veneer: COVID-19 research as a mobilisation of collective intelligence by the global research community Open

Daniel Hook, James Wilsdon · 2023

The global research community responded with speed and at scale to the emergence of COVID-19, with around 4.6% of all research outputs in 2020 related to the pandemic. That share almost doubled through 2021, to reach 8.6% of research outpu…

Recategorising research: Mapping from FoR 2008 to FoR 2020 in Dimensions Open

Simon Porter, Daniel Hook · 2022

In 2020 the Australia New Zealand Standard Research Classification Fields of Research Codes (ANZSRC FoR codes) were updated by their owners. This has led the sector to need to update their systems of reference and has caused suppliers work…

Editorial: Trust and Infrastructure in Scholarly Communications Open

Daniel Hook, Linda O’Brien, Stephen Pinfield · 2022

EDITORIAL article Front. Res. Metr. Anal., 01 June 2022Sec. Scholarly Communication https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2022.925500

Connecting Scientometrics: Dimensions as a Route to Broadening Context for Analyses Open

Simon Porter, Daniel Hook · 2022

Modern cloud-based data infrastructures open new vistas for the deployment of scientometric data into the hands of practitioners. These infrastructures lower barriers to entry by making data more available and compute capacity more afforda…

Referee report. For: pubassistant.ch: consolidating publication profiles of researchers [version 2; peer review: 1 approved with reservations] Open

Daniel Hook · 2022

ANZSRC FoR Code Mapping Analysis Open

Daniel Hook, Simon Porter · 2022

Data for four figures. Figure 3: Compares coverage of FoR codes in Dimensions from 1991 to 2020 by the original Dimensions FoR categoriser (2008 codes) and the new Dimensions FoR categoriser (2020 Codes) Figure 4: Shows number of article…

Referee report. For: pubassistant.ch: consolidating publication profiles of researchers [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 not approved] Open

Daniel Hook · 2022

Questioning the coming age of multimodal research infrastructure Open

Daniel Hook, Simon Porter, Christian Herzog · 2022

While, in the last 20 years, we have tamed the scholarly record, we should not be complacent. As research becomes more multimodal, the scholarly record will need morph into something new. The systems that currently contain it will not be f…

Pandemic Veneer: Supporting Data Files Open

Daniel Hook, James Wilsdon · 2022

Code and data extracts from which Figures 1-4 where derived and upon which several comments in main body of the text rely.Each Excel File contains a data extract and, where appropriate, the SQL code for Dimensions on Big Query to produce t…

PT -symmetric classical mechanics Open

Carl M. Bender, Daniel Hook · 2021

This paper reports the results of an ongoing in-depth analysis of the classical trajectories of the class of non-Hermitian -symmetric Hamiltonians H = p 2 + x 2 ( ix ) ε ( ε ⩾ 0). A variety of phenomena, heret…

Scaling Scientometrics: Dimensions on Google BigQuery as an Infrastructure for Large-Scale Analysis Open

Daniel Hook, Simon Porter · 2021

Cloud computing has the capacity to transform many parts of the research ecosystem, from particular research areas to overall strategic decision making and policy. Scientometrics sits at the boundary between research and the decision-makin…

$PT$-symmetric classical mechanics Open

Carl M. Bender, Daniel Hook · 2021

This paper reports the results of an ongoing in-depth analysis of the classical trajectories of the class of non-Hermitian $PT$-symmetric Hamiltonians $H=p^2+ x^2(ix)^\varepsilon$ ($\varepsilon\geq0$). A variety of phenomena, heretofore ov…

Campus or platform – what shape will the post-COVID university take? Open

Jon Treadway, Daniel Hook · 2021

Online learning is fragmenting the traditional model of the university as a single site for both education and research. Jon Treadway and Daniel W Hook, discuss how this digital transition is reshaping universities and how altmetrics might…

Real-Time Bibliometrics: Dimensions as a Resource for Analyzing Aspects of COVID-19 Open

Daniel Hook, Simon Porter, Hélène Draux, Christian Herzog · 2021

Dimensions was built as a platform to allow stakeholders in the research community, including academic bibliometricians, to more easily create and understand the context of different types of research object through the linkages between th…

Collaborations by world bank economic classification Open

Daniel Hook, Simon Porter · 2021

Data describing collaboration of world bank economic classification.

Centre of Mass Citation Analysis Open

Daniel Hook, Simon Porter · 2021

Datasets produced from Dimensions on Google BigQuery regarding the movement of the centre of mass of global publication. Four datasets are contained:1) The number of affiliations in the Dimensions dataset associated with GRID (http://grid.…

Dimensions: Bringing down barriers between scientometricians and data Open

Christian Herzog, Daniel Hook, Stacy Konkiel · 2020

Until recently, comprehensive scientometrics data has been made available only in siloed, subscription-based tools that are inaccessible to researchers who lack institutional support and resources. As a result of limited data access, resea…

Datasets for Responding to COVID-19 - Cultural changes and landscape trends in the global research system Open

Daniel Hook · 2020

Datasets for Responding to COVID-19} - Cultural changes and landscape trends in the global research system

Perception, prestige and PageRank Open

David Zeitlyn, Daniel Hook · 2019

Academic prestige is difficult to quantify in objective terms. Network theory offers the opportunity to use a mathematical formalism to model both the prestige associated with an academic and the relationships between academic colleagues. …

The Price of Gold: Curiosity? Open

Daniel Hook, Mark Hahnel, Christian Herzog · 2019

Gold open access as characterised by the payment of an article processing charge (APC) has become one of the dominant models in open access publication. This paper examines an extreme hypothetical case in which the APC model is the only mo…

Presentations from the Launch of the UCL Research Data Repository Open

James A. Wilson, June Hedges, Rebecca O’Connell, Daniel Hook, Paul Ayris · 2019

These are the slides that were presented at the launch of UCL's Research Data Repository event on the 5th June, 2019.The event featured three talks considering the impact of data repositories: on Open Science; on artificial intelligence (w…

Examining Implications of Brexit for the UK Research Base Open

Martin Szomszor, Daniel Hook · 2019

Independent data research by Digital Science reveals that leading British institutions and companies, including the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Rolls-Royce, BT and the BBC, could stand to lose significant EU funding …

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