Harish Varma Siravuri

Using Social Media and Scholarly Text to Predict Public Understanding of Science

2018

People often struggle to understand scientific texts, which leads to miscommunication and often to inaccurate and even sensationalistic reports of research. Identifying and achieving a better understanding of the factors that affect comprehension would be …

Exploring features for predicting policy citations

2017 · ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

In this study we performed an initial investigation and evaluation of altmetrics and their relationship with public policy citation of research papers. We examined methods for using altmetrics and other data to predict whether a …