v2.0

[2.0] - 2019-11-11

Added

• This NEWS file
• Universal Numeric Fingerprints (UNF) are now used to support dataset validation. The file unf.csv gives UNF hash strings for each dataset format, size, and file format. By comparing these hash strings to working datasets, users can confirm which version of the dataset they are using.
  • UNF are implemented using the UNF package in R. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/UNF/index.html
  • For a brief introduction to UNF, see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/UNF/vignettes/citation.html
  • The following block briefly illustrates the use of UNF in practice:

library(UNF)

## UNF value for publications-philosophy of science-Rds v2.0
unf_value = 'nJaKSRjMpMV1zYGoOPFRlQ=='

pub_level = readRDS('publications_philsci.Rds')
pub_level_unf = unf(pub_level, version = 6, digits = 3, timezone = 'UTC')

identical(pub_level_unf$unf, unf_value)

Removed

• Several redundant or (almost entirely) empty/NA columns were removed.
  • Redundant URL column; cf #11
  • member, prefix, score, source, subject, archive, authenticated.orcid, affiliation1.name, affiliation2.name, affiliation3.name, affiliation4.name, name, funder, assertion
• Evelyn Brister manually identified and removed numerous non-article documents, such as tables of contents and book reviews.
• Evelyn Brister manually identified authors who qualified as philosophers of science using the threshold criterion (i.e., 2 or more papers in a primary venue) but who primarily worked in other areas of philosophy. These authors are:
  • E. J. Lowe (metaphysics, phil mind, and phil lang.)
  • H B Acton (political philosophy)
  • Alasdair MacIntyre (ethics)
  • V. J. McGill
  • Jan Narveson (political theory)
  • Patrick Nowell-Smith (moral theory)
  • Daniel J O’Connor (philosophy of education)

Fixed

• Evelyn Brister manually reviewed names and gender attribution, fixing issues related to initialization, misspellings, and incorrect or missing gender attribution (based on presentation on faculty websites, etc.).
  • cf #12

Changed

• The "philosophy of science" dataset size is now filtered by year, and includes only documents published between 1930 and 2017. The first primary philosophy of science venue (the first version of Erkenntnis) began publication in 1930, so our approach identifies very few "philosophers of science" prior to this year.