The Scholarly Knowledge Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field of Information.

ABSTRACT: The scholarly knowledge ecosystem presents an outstanding exemplar of the challenges of understanding, improving, and governing information ecosystems at scale. This article draws upon significant reports on aspects of the ecosystem to characterize the most important research challenges and promising potential approaches. The focus of this review article is the fundamental scientific research challenges related to developing a better understanding of the scholarly knowledge ecosystem. Across a range of disciplines, we identify reports that are conceived broadly, published recently, and written collectively. We extract the critical research questions, summarize these using quantitative text analysis, and use this quantitative analysis to inform a qualitative synthesis. Three broad themes em

SUBMITTER: Altman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8843814 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature