Schneider group to present at ASIS&T workshop

Jodi Schneider
Jodi Schneider, Affiliate Associate Professor
Malik Salami
Malik Salami
Yuanxi Fu 2025
Yuanxi Fu

Members of Associate Professor Jodi Schneider's group will present their research at the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric, and Scientific and Technical Information Research, which will be held virtually on November 6 and 13. The MET-STI 2024 Workshop is collaboratively hosted by the Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG-MET) and Special Interest Group for Scientific and Technical Information (SIG-STI) of ASIS&T.

PhD student Malik Salami, MSLIS student Corinne McCumber, and Schneider will present "Reassessment of the Agreement in Retraction Indexing Across 4 Multidisciplinary Sources: Crossref, Retraction Watch, Scopus, and Web of Science," on November 13 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. *Best Student Paper

Christoph Stade, a German student who interned with Schneider last summer; Schneider; and PhD student Yuanxi Fu will present "Making Sense of the Environmental Science Landscape: An Exploration of the CEEDER Database," on November 13 at 9:10 a.m. Eastern Time.

"I'm particularly proud that out of only eight projects selected for presentation, two are from Illinois," said Schneider. "Data quality still needs improvement. In Malik and Corinne's work, we found that over 34,000 items were newly indexed as retracted in a 15-month period. While 2023 has the most retractions on record, over three times as many items were added to indexes in the past 15 months as in that 'banner year.'"

She added, "Christoph and Yuanxi studied over 300 climate change review papers by analyzing reference lists and research questions. We have some new ideas for helping policymakers navigate a large number of research papers at once."

Schneider studies the science of science through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion. Her long-term research agenda analyzes controversies applying science to public policy; how knowledge brokers influence citizens; and whether controversies are sustained by citizens' disparate interpretations of scientific evidence and its quality. She holds a PhD in informatics from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and master's degrees in library and information science from the University of Illinois and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.

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