High-Level Project Summary
Project Impact, the project I have developed, takes into account both social and academic variables at play when judging the impact of an open science activity. By not just taking into account citations of a journal, article, and software you will be able to make more informed conclusions on the impact of an open science activity. The reason that it is important to be able to judge the impact of open science is because it leads to some research areas being put into more focus than others, allowing the public to make more contributions and discussions on such topics which will eventually lead to more breakthroughs in the scientific community and the advancement of mankind as a whole.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Project Impact is a methodical algorithm which takes into account social and academic factors that can be used as a metric to quantify the impact of an open science activity. The way it works is that it utilizes data from altimetric websites to get information such as h-index, number of social media discussions referencing the data, data downloads, etc. Another form of data which can be used is website cookies. Many websites have buttons to download, copy, cite, etc. and article and all that data can be used when calculating the impact of some Open Science Data. By simply specifying this in the cookie policy of your website, you get obtain more data which will help create more informed results on evaluating the impact of an open science activity. Once the data is collected it is inputted into an equation which calculates the impact score. The impact score is the raw metric which quantifies the effectiveness of sharing that specific open science activity's data. The benefit my project will have is that it will support the Open Science movement which can lead to greater collaboration, increased confidence in findings and goodwill between researchers. As I mentioned before I did use altimetric software(specific websites can be found in the references field) to collect both social and academic data related to the topic. Although my project may not seen too flashy and stunning when compared to others, it does provide a realistic approach to the quantification of Open Science.
Space Agency Data
For the demo in my project I utilized data from a NASA journal's article Aerospace medicine and human performance: “Human Performance in a Realistic Instrument-Control Task during Short-Term Microgravity”. The reason I chose this topic/article was because I believed it represented a topic which might seem like one which has little impact when just reading the title, however its applications and impact are more than you can imagine. This can easily be found out by the impact score which I calculate using my method of taking into account both social and academic factors. After doing so you can see how such a study has a massive application to future space travel and colonization of planets and should have more funding, research, and data to complement it.
Hackathon Journey
My Space Apps Journey has been very fun and I hope to do it again. A few things I learned were definitely problem solving approaches as well as a lot about space. I was inspired to chose this challenge because I have a deep belief that everyone in the public should be informed about science and that communicating effectively with each other will allow us to reach breakthroughs. To solve challenges I simply asked moderators in discord for help. And lastly I would like to thank my sister, because without her I would have never found out about this event and been able to participate.
References
https://osu.libguides.com/oardc/citation_analysis/journal_ranking
https://www.resurchify.com/impact/details/21101021573
https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/3-1442
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/measuring-research-impact/altmetrics
https://www.altmetric.com/demos/plos.html
https://plos.org/open-science/open-methods/
Tags
#intermediate, #advanced, #earth, #SpaceExploration, #software