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Digital artifacts reveal development and diffusion of climate research

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Title Digital artifacts reveal development and diffusion of climate research
 
Creator Carneiro, Bia
Resce, Giuliano
Sapkota, Tek Bahadur
 
Subject climate change
climate change adaptation
climate change mitigation
policies
social media
research for development
machine learning
natural language processing
digital methods
 
Description Research for development organizations generate tremendous amount of accessible knowledge, but given their scale, time and resource constraints, the impact of outputs is not systematically analyzed. This is because traditional bibliometric analyses present limitations to synthesize accumulated knowledge and retrofitting indicators to historical outputs. To address these shortcomings, this study proposes an integrated, web-based approach to systematically analyze the production and diffusion of knowledge from large-scale research programs, using climate research of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) as a case study. Our analytical framework employs text mining, social network analysis and hyperlink analysis to an unstructured mass of publicly available digital artifacts such as institutional repositories, citation databases, and social media to uncover narratives, dynamics, and relationships. Findings show CIMMYT's climate research is strongly incorporated into a holistic systems approach and that the institution is actively engaged in knowledge exchanges with key actors from the scientific, development and public policy communities. The proposed analytical framework establishes an effective approach for research for development organizations to leverage existing online data sources to assess the extent of their knowledge production, dissemination, and reach.
 
Date 2022-08-19
2023-07-25T10:02:02Z
2023-07-25T10:02:02Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Carneiro, B.; Resce, G.; Sapkota, T.B. (2022) Digital artifacts reveal development and diffusion of climate research. Scientific Reports 12:14146. ISSN: 2045-2322
2045-2322
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131267
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17717-8
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 17 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Scientific Reports