Papers in select sociology journals (1999–2004): A bibliometric analysis
The main objectives of the present study is to determine the growth of literature in the field of sociology and the related authorship pattern; value of group co-efficient for collaborative research and geographical distribution of papers during 1999-21003. The study shows that the highest number of papers (86) were published in 2001 and 2003. The number of single author papers is higher at 84% out of a total of 475. The value of group co-efficient (gp) was only 0.16. The degree of collaboration among the co-authors was minimum (0.02) in articles written by five authors and maximum (0.12) in twoauthor papers.
Collaborative filtering systems have been developed to manage information overload in online communities. In these systems, users rank content provided by other users on the validity or usefulness within their particular context. Slash-dot is an example of such a community where peers rate each others' comments based on their relevance to the post. This work extracts a wide variety of features from the Slashdot metadata and posts' linguistic contents to identify features that can predict the community rating. We find that author reputation, use of pronouns, and author sentiment are salient. We achieve 76% accuracy at predicting the community's rating of the post as good, neutral, or bad.