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The emergence and development of gene expression profiling

Title: The emergence and development of gene expression profiling: a key component of the 3B (bench, bedside, bytes) in translational research. This paper (which can be downloaded in french)  examines the emergence and development of one of the key components of genomics, … Continue reading

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Authors and Concepts mapping

Given  semantic reconstructions of  scientific activity one can be tempted to “project” agents publications or even agents dynamics on conceptual maps. A proximity measure between groups of terms provides a simple way to represent any institution (an agent, a lab, … Continue reading

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Multi-level Science mapping

Given a proximity metric, it is possible to map the scientific landscape made by the aggregation of publications over time, as a multi-level object, featuring at the micro-level: a lexical network made by terms or key phrases linked according to … Continue reading

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A metric for textual content

Measuring meaning of terms from simple statistics with very basic linguistic treatment is certainly a painstaking task that will never perform  than best hermeneutic work.  But if one is only interested in defining a metric between two terms or phrases … Continue reading

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Team formation dynamics

Collaboration dynamics are classically appraised as processes only based on dyadic behaviours between authors. Yet cognitive content and expertise of individuals also matter to build new collaborations. We also consider that joining a team essentially stems from collective decision which … Continue reading

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PhD

Title: Social and semantic dynamics in knwoledge communities: morphogenesis and diffusion (Dynamiques sociales et sémantiques dans les communautés de savoirs: morphogenèse et diffusion.) [Thesis (in french), pdf], [defense slides (in french)]et [résumé] – obtained the “Prix de thèse” 2010 of … Continue reading

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Social and semantic coevolution in knowledge networks

Two knowledge communities are studied: a scientific community made of researchers collaborating to produce publications, and a set of american political blogs producing posts and citing each other. These two systems are extensively compared regarding (i)  their structural features, (ii) … Continue reading

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