[LTER-im] Bachelors theses

Marty Downs downs at nceas.ucsb.edu
Thu Feb 7 08:45:50 PST 2019


Very cool! Definitely will bookmark that for the decadal review.
Thanks, Marty

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 4:11 PM Jennifer Anne Rudgers <jrudgers at unm.edu>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> I just wanted to share this analysis in case anyone wants to generate
> something comparable for their LTER site.
>
>
>
> The R code reads in a bibtex file.
>
>
>
> You need the Zotero plug-in here
>
> https://github.com/beloglazov/zotero-scholar-citations
>
> to scrape citations from Google Scholar for each publication.
>
>
>
> If you build the initial database to include Articles that were cited by
> each publication (we haven’t added that yet), you can build coauthor
> networks.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Jenn
>
>
>
> Here are some of the summary stats generated for SEV:
>
>
>
>
>
> SEV BIBLIOGRAPHY
>
> Documents (total count)               826
>
> Sources (Journals, Books, etc.)       266
>
> Annual Percentage Growth Rate 1.360725
>
> Period                                1989 – 2019
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>
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>
>
> Total number of citations to SEV pubs 61,491
>
> Average citations per document        74.44
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>
> Authors  (how many)                   2023
>
> Author Appearances                    4261
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>
>
> Top manuscripts per citations
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>
>
>            Paper            TC TCperYear
>
> 1  MCDOWELL N, 2008,      2053     186.6
>
> 2  HOLBEN BN, 2001,       1607      89.3
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> 3  SWETNAM TW, 1999,      1374      68.7
>
> 4  SCHLESINGER WH, 1995,  1351      56.3
>
> 5  WAIDE RB, 1999,        1294      64.7
>
> 6  LUBCHENCO J, 1991,     1147      41.0
>
> 7  KNAPP AK, 2001,        1091      60.6
>
> 8  SWETNAM TW, 1998,       987      47.0
>
> 9  MULHOLLAND PJ, 2008,    918      83.5
>
> 10 JACKSON RB, 2002,       873      51.4
>
>
>
> Most Productive Authors
>
>
>
>    Authors        Articles Authors        Articles Fractionalized
>
> 1   COLLINS SL         109  COLLINS SL                      20.04
>
> 2   POCKMAN WT          56  GOSZ JR                         17.70
>
> 3   PETERS DPC          48  PETERS DPC                      14.72
>
> 4   PARMENTER RR        45  PARMENTER RR                    14.66
>
> 5   GOSZ JR             37  LI BL                           14.12
>
> 6   LITVAK ME           37  MILNE BT                        11.98
>
> 7   SINSABAUGH RL       33  WHITE CS                         9.90
>
> 8   D'ODORICO P         27  POCKMAN WT                       9.64
>
> 9   LI BL               27  SINSABAUGH RL                    8.22
>
> 10  DAHM CN             26  D'ODORICO P                      6.61
>
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>
>
> *From:* im <im-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> *On Behalf Of *Whiteaker,
> Timothy L
> *Sent:* Monday, February 4, 2019 1:01 PM
> *To:* Margaret O'Brien <margaret.obrien at ucsb.edu>; James Laundre <
> jlaundre at mbl.edu>
> *Cc:* IM committee <im at lternet.edu>; lter-admins at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-im] Bachelors theses
>
>
>
> At least with Zotero, when I export to BibTeX, the Zotero tags come out in
> the keywords field. Do you think it's feasible to write a script that looks
> in the BibTeX keywords for NSF-LTER-xxx and mastersthesis/bachelorsthesis,
> or some variant thereof, and updates the file accordingly. When I say
> feasible, I mean in a way that one person could write it once and then all
> LTER sites could use it directly or with little modification (such as
> adding the local ID for SBC).
>
>
>
> Tim Whiteaker
>
> Research Scientist
>
> The University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>
> *From:* im <im-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> *On Behalf Of *Margaret O'Brien
> *Sent:* Friday, February 01, 2019 7:09 PM
> *To:* James Laundre <jlaundre at mbl.edu>
> *Cc:* IM committee <im at lternet.edu>; lter-admins at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-im] Bachelors theses
>
>
>
> I recall that the LTER site was in Marty's original list.
>
> One other request - it would simplify updates immensely if we can include
> a field for local-identifier (is NCO able to ignore it?)
>
> using the SBC example again, I think it would look like this (pls confirm)
>
>
>
>
> ```
>
> @mastersthesis{mastersthesis,
>
>   ltersite={NSF-LTER-SBC},
>
>   localidentifier={sbclter-bibliography-1246},
>
>   title={Establishing foraminifera based biofacies within shallow marine
> deposits, Carpinteria Slough, CA. Implications for southern California
> sea-level studies},
>
>   author={Bentz, M},
>
>   year={2016},
>
>   institution={University of California, Santa Barbara},
>
>   federal_support={unknown},
>
>   status={published},
>
>   peer_reviewed={unknown},
>
> }
>
> ```
>
>
>
>
> Margaret O'Brien
> ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322
> Information Management
> Marine Science Institute, UCSB
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106
> 805-893-2071 (voice)
> http://environmentaldatainitiative.org
> http://sbc.marinebon.org
>
> http://sbc.lternet.edu
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> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 4:13 PM James Laundre <jlaundre at mbl.edu> wrote:
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> And should we have a field of ltersite ie NSF-LTER-XXX?
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 1, 2019 7:00 PM
> *To:* Margaret O'Brien
> *Cc:* IM committee; lter-admins at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-im] Bachelors theses
>
>
>
> NSF is a little inconsistent, using @mastersthesis and @phdthesis, but
> let's go with spelled-out for clarity.
>
>
>
> @bachelorsthesis{sbclter-bibliography-1246,
>
>   title={Establishing formainifera based biofacies within shallow marine
> deposits, Carpinteria Slough, CA. Implications for southern California
> sea-level studies},
>
>   author={Bentz, M},
>
>   year={2016},
>
>   institution={University of California, Santa Barbara},
>
>   federal_support={unknown},
>
>   status={published},
>
>   peer_reviewed={unknown},
>
> }
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:35 PM Margaret O'Brien <margaret.obrien at ucsb.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Below is an SBC entry for a masters thesis. To follow NSF's naming
> convention, you would not abbreviate @bachelorsthesis{...
>
>
>
>
>
> ```
>
> @mastersthesis{sbclter-bibliography-1246,
>
>   title={Establishing formainifera based biofacies within shallow marine
> deposits, Carpinteria Slough, CA. Implications for southern California
> sea-level studies},
>
>   author={Bentz, M},
>
>   year={2016},
>
>   institution={University of California, Santa Barbara},
>
>   federal_support={unknown},
>
>   status={published},
>
>   peer_reviewed={unknown},
>
> }
>
> ```
>
>
>
>
> Margaret O'Brien
> ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322
> Information Management
> Marine Science Institute, UCSB
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106
> 805-893-2071 (voice)
> http://environmentaldatainitiative.org
> http://sbc.marinebon.org
>
> http://sbc.lternet.edu
>
>
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>
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> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:23 PM Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks Margaret--
>
>
>
> And yes, the intention was to follow the NSF types (except where NSF
> doesn't offer a type that fits something that the committee feels strongly
> about).
>
> You guys will have to worry about how to get your systems to output that.
> I'll worry about how to get it IN.
>
>
>
> So probably we should use this approach:
>
>
>
> @bachthesis{bachthesis,
>
>   author       = {Firstname Lastname},
>
>   title        = {The title of the work},
>
>   school       = {The school of the thesis},
>
>   year         = 1993,
>
>   address      = {The address of the publisher},
>
>   month        = 7,
>
>   note         = {An optional note}
>
> }
>
>
>
> Thanks, Marty
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:15 PM Margaret O'Brien <margaret.obrien at ucsb.edu>
> wrote:
>
> at SBC, we follow the NSF bibtex types, because we submit our lists for
> annual reports in bibtex.
>
> I don't think NSF accepts BS-level theses, only masters and phd. if you
> want to add bachelor's I suggest you follow the naming convention to keep
> it simple.
>
>
>
> Here are the notes and the NSF guide (linked on note).
>
> http://im.lternet.edu/bibliography/nsf_report_bibtex
>
> https://www.research.gov/common/robohelp/public/WebHelp/Project_Reports.htm
>
>
>
>
> Margaret O'Brien
> ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322
> Information Management
> Marine Science Institute, UCSB
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106
> 805-893-2071 (voice)
> http://environmentaldatainitiative.org
> http://sbc.marinebon.org
>
> http://sbc.lternet.edu
>
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>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 2:38 PM Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
> Jim brings up a good point below about master's and PhD theses in bibtex.
>
>
>
> Stack exchange (
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/135082/referencing-a-bacherlors-thesis)
> suggests the following approach:
>
>
>
> Use @thesis as the entry type for for all theses and set type=phdthesis,
> mathesis, or bachthesis, as appropriate.
>
>
>
> Anyone hit this snag yet and have a better solution?
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *James Laundre* <jlaundre at mbl.edu>
> Date: Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [LTER-im] [LTER-lpi] Self Study Information Clarifications
> To: Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>
>
>
>
> Hi Marty,
>
>
>
> In looking at your requests for BibTex file of publications I see you want
> for thesis a required field:  type of undergraduate, masters and doctoral.
> But from what I gather BibTex does not have these types.  Only
> @masterthesis  and @phdthesis.  Are there new types out?  Can you point me
> to an example?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> *thesis* – an undergraduate, master’s or doctoral thesis
>
>    - Required fields: author, title, school, year, type (undergraduate,
>    masters, doctoral)
>    - Optional fields: address, month, note
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* im [mailto:im-bounces at lists.lternet.edu] *On Behalf Of *Marty
> Downs
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 31, 2019 12:16 PM
> *To:* Peter Groffman <groffmanp at caryinstitute.org>
> *Cc:* im at lternet.edu; lter-admins at lternet.edu; lpi at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-im] [LTER-lpi] Self Study Information Clarifications
>
>
>
> The web pages and files have been updated to reflect the change.
>
>
>
> Overall instructions for 40-year Information request:
> https://lternet.edu/2019-site-information-request/  *(pw: 40Y1nf0)*
>
> Personnel update: https://lternet.edu/personnel-update-instructions/
>
> Publications and products:
> https://lternet.edu/lter-publications-and-products-instructions/
>
> Grants: https://lternet.edu/leveraging-instructions/
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marty
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 3:57 AM Peter Groffman <
> groffmanp at caryinstitute.org> wrote:
>
> Dear LTER PIs,
>
> We have gotten some feedback that some of the information requests for the
> LTER 40 year review are confusing and/or onerous.  We therefore have
> significantly revised and simplified the requests for "publications" and
> "leveraging" as described below and on the "site information request"
> WWWsite.
>
> We apologize for any confusion and anxiety that this request has caused.
> The leveraging request emerged from a burning desire of a couple of us on
> the 40 year review committee to compile information on institutional
> support. But this turns out to be a huge pain in the neck so we are now
> just asking for a list of large (>25K) grants.   We will also include a few
> narrative examples describing how LTER grants catalyze institutional
> synergies at different types of sites.
>
> For the publications, we have removed the request to make a distinction
> between LTER-funded and LTER-enabled work.  However, there is real concern
> at NSF that we only include papers that are genuinely associated with
> LTER.  There is no systematic way to do this, so we are hoping that people
> will take a look at their publication list and remove things that will
> raise questions and concerns with NSF and reviewers.
>
> Again, sorry for any confusion and concern!
>
> Peter Groffman
>
> Chair, LTER Science Council
>
> Chair, LTER 40 Year Review Committee"
>
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Peter M. Groffman
>
> Professor CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and
>
> Brooklyn College Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
>
> 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, 5th Floor
>
> New York, NY 10031
>
> Phone (office): 212-413-3143
>
> Phone (cell):  845-797-4832
>
> Email: peter.groffman at asrc.cuny.edu
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> *From:* lpi [mailto:lpi-bounces at lists.lternet.edu] *On Behalf Of *Marty
> Downs
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:56 PM
> *To:* lpi at lternet.edu; im at lternet.edu; lter-admins at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* [LTER-lpi] Self Study Information Clarifications
>
>
>
> I'd like to provide a few clarifications on recent emails. As these
> questions come up and we clarify, I will add notes to the online document.
>
>
>
> *Self Study Information Request*
>
> *We are NOT asking sites to differentiate between LTER-funded and
> LTER-enabled publications. *They are both included so that it is clear
> they may both be included as site publications. Ultimately, we would like
> to deriments, but is conducted by those outside of the immediate LTER
> community. This latter category is something that is quite valuable to NSF
> and they have repeatedly requested, but we don't yet have a satisfactory
> method for distinguishing it.
>
>
>
> *Personnel*
>
> Please:
>
> 1) add new people, with all accompanying information *except* username;
>
> 2) do not delete LTER participants who are no longer associated with the
> project, just add "former" in the eduPersonEntitlement column;
>
> 3) add the new fields to existing people. Include that information as far
> back as you are able, but at least for all current members.
>
>
>
> *Leveraging*
>
> Please use one line for each unique site/role/funding source combination.
> This will allow us to weight the Network totals by the various roles
> without revealing individual allocations or salaries:
>
>
>
> So, a hypothetical example:
>
> *Site           Role
> Funding Source            FTE*
>
> NCO    Lead Principal Investigator                 NSF-LTER
>      0.06
>
> NCO        Lead Principal Investigator              UCSB
>           0.10
>
> NCO    Co-PIs                                             NSF-LTER
>              0.5
>
> NCO    Other Professional                           NSF-LTER
>        2.5
>
> NCO    Other Staff                                       NSF-LTER
>            0.5
>
> NCO        Other Staff                                       NCEAS
>                   1.5
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marty
>
>
>
> --
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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