Nicholas M. Weber

Nicholas Weber is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science and works in the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship. His research interests include scholarly communications, science and technology policy, and climate informatics. He is currently a Data Curation Education in Re-search Centers (DCERC) fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). His dissertation fieldwork at NCAR is focused on how economic notions of value and sociological frameworks for ethical values are combined in the impact metrics used to quantify and measure the success of climate science research projects.

Publications

Paratexts and Documentary Practices: Text Mining Authorship and Acknowledgment from a Bioinformatics Corpus
Nicholas M. Weber, Andrea K. Thomer. © 2019. 28 pages.
The formal literature of science has traditionally acted as a “ledger” where debts are acknowledged, previous works are cited, and advances in knowledge are claimed. Recent...
Paratexts and Documentary Practices: Text Mining Authorship and Acknowledgment from a Bioinformatics Corpus
Nicholas M. Weber, Andrea K. Thomer. © 2014. 26 pages.
The formal literature of science has traditionally acted as a “ledger” where debts are acknowledged, previous works are cited, and advances in knowledge are claimed. Recent...