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R for academic promotion #10

Open jenrichmond opened 4 years ago

jenrichmond commented 4 years ago

Hi, this might be too niche but I went up for promotion this year and R was enormously useful in pulling/wrangling/visualising all the benchmarking data you need to convince the committee you are already working at the next level. I have been meaning to pull the workflow into series of blog posts but.... you know how it is.

I used a combination of rvest to pull lists of A/Profs from websites, rorcid, scholar, scopus to get pub lists/citation counts, and tidytext and wordcloud to wrangle and visualise qualitative comments from students teaching evaluations. There are also relevant shiny apps that are useful when you are not so confident with code.

http://shiny.psy.gla.ac.uk/debruine/wordcloud/

https://aushsi.shinyapps.io/orcid/

Maybe a guide for using R to speed up the academic promotion process so you can spend more time on the "real work" of academia (aka science) would be a useful resource to create?

Jen

JohnOrmerod commented 4 years ago

Hi Jen, I really like this idea, but agree that it might be niche. But let's see who else might be interested in working on something like this.

emagatova commented 4 years ago

I am 100% interested in working on this!

robjhyndman commented 4 years ago

I've done a bit of work on similar tasks, but at the other side of the process -- checking out applicants for jobs or promotions. I have some code I can contribute around assessing publications based on various journal rankings.

melvidoni commented 4 years ago

I like this idea, and I'd be interested in working on this one as well!

MitchStares commented 4 years ago

I'd be keen to work on this or at least observe a lot of the process. Academic promotions a long way off for me (finishing up phd) but I am definitely interested.

maelle commented 4 years ago

Have you seen https://livefreeordichotomize.com/2019/11/14/pulling-co-authors-for-grant-docs/?

Also potentially relevant https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/using-rorcid-to-generate-a-website-cv/1806 https://discuss.ropensci.org/t/academic-cv-using-vitae-scholar-to-pull-papers-and-tic-for-building-on-travis/1842

lytong22 commented 4 years ago

Here is the link to the repo https://github.com/ropenscilabs/Rcademy