Clara Boothby

My research interests cover a broad variety of topics that generally fit under the category of scientific research careers in the context of team science. I'm interested in how the infrastructure of scientific research has formed and continues to change over time. I am involved in the following projects.

Science Genome, PI: YY Ahn
Author Trajectories in Embedding Space
Project Roles and Career Training in a Team Science Environment
The Replacement Rate of the Scientific Workforce
Credibility of Science Information on Online platforms
Text Analysis of Career Editorials

Publications

Boothby, C., Milojevic, S., Larivière, V., Radicchi, F., Sugimoto, C., (preprint). Consistent churn of early career researchers: an analysis of turnover and replacement in the scientific workforce. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hdny6

Boothby, C., & Milojević, S. (2021). An exploratory full-text analysis of Science Careers in a changing academic job market. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03905-2

Boothby, C., Murray, D., Polovick, A., Tsou, A., Sugimoto, C. R. (In Revisions) Credibility of Scientific Information on Social Media. Proceedings of the Social Media Society Conference 2020. Social Media Society Conference.

Paolillo, J. C., Harper, B., Boothby, C., & Axelrod, D. (2020, January 7). YouTube Children’s Videos: Development of a Genre under Algorithm. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2020. Hawaii International Conferences on System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2020.336

Murray, D., Boothby, C., Zhao, H., Minik, V., Bérubé, N., Larivière, V., & Sugimoto, C. R. (2019). Exploring the personal and professional factors associated with student evaluations of teachers. SocArXiv

Presentations

Boothby, C., Milojević, S., Lariviere, V., John Walsh, Filippo Radicchi, & Sugimoto, C. R., (2021) “Stability through Constant Turnover: The Replacement Rate of the Scientific Workforce.” 18th Annual Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics. Travel award.

Boothby, C., Milojević, S., Lariviere, V., & Sugimoto, C. R., (2020, October 23) “The Replacement Rate of Academic Science is Consistent over Time Because Younger Scientists are not Retained.” ASIS&T, SIG-MET meeting.

Boothby, C., Milojević, S. (2020, March 28). “Don’t tell me what to do!”: A Full-Text Analysis of Science Careers in a Changing Academic Job Market. Common Ground: The Fourth Annual Media School Graduate Conference

Paolillo, J. C., Harper, B., Boothby, C., & Axelrod, D. (2020, January 7). YouTube Children’s Videos: Development of a Genre under Algorithm. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2020.

Chen, P. Y., Boothby, C. (2019, November 2) Patterns of Regional Scientific Collaboration between China & Hong Kong: A Longitudinal, Institution-Level Analysis. Information and Library Science Doctoral Forum at Indiana University. Awarded Third Prize

Boothby, C., Murray, D., Polovick, A., Tsou, A., Sugimoto, C. R. (2019, March 29). Credibility of Scientific Information on Social Media. Common Ground: The Third Annual Media School Graduate Conference.

Teaching

I have been an Associate Instructor for the following courses

Informatics I501: Introduction to Informatics

Fall 2019

Assisted the lead instructor, and led a series of weekly professionalization talks

Informatics I222: The Information Society

Fall 2018 Spring 2019

Grading. Presented a guest lecture on Science Metrics

Informatics I453: Computer and Information Ethics

Fall 2017 Spring 2018

Assisted the lead instructor. Grading. Led several lessons

English W131: Elementary Composition

Fall 2015 Spring 2016

designed and led all course sessions

Other Interests

° I serve as an editor on the SciU blog

° I developed a descriptive report on the readership and book rankings for Trek Book Club

Contact

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Updates

November 17, 2022

I successfully defended my dissertation, "The Changing Trajectories of Academic Careers in the Environments of Team Science"! I will be working as an ORISE fellow at NCSES, and I'm excited for what's coming next.

May 6, 2021

I will be virtually attending and presenting at ISSI 2021. I'm presenting “Stability through Constant Turnover: The Replacement Rate of the Scientific Workforce,” on behalf of coauthors Staša Milojević, Vincent Lariviere, John Walsh, Filippo Radicchi, & Cassidy Sugimoto.

October 31, 2020

I Passed my Qualifying Exams! After a lot of time spent thinking and writing about the effects of a team science environment on the career trajectories of individual scientists, I can't wait to explore these ideas in my dissertation reserach. Many thanks to my committee, Nathan Ensmenger, Staša Milojević, John Paolillo, and Cassidy Sugimoto for their support and thoughful questions.

December 26, 2019

I will be attending HICSS on Maui, Hawaii from January 7-11, 2020! I'll be presenting part of a project I've been working on with John Paolillo , Brian Harper and David Axelrod about children's videos on YouTube.

December 26, 2019

Website created!

March 29, 2019

Dakota Murray and I presented our work on perceived credibility of scientific information online at the Common Ground conference at the IU Media School.

This work was done in Cassidy Sugimoto's lab in collaboration with Anna Polovick, and Andrew Tsou.

Slides