Andrea Scharnhorst

Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Data Archives and Networked Services - DANS
e-humanities group

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Dr. Andrea Scharnhorst is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Data Archives and Networked Services and e-humanities group). Her work focuses on modelling and simulating the emergence of innovations (new modes of behaviour and learning, forms of communication, technologies or scientific ideas) in social systems. Her work can be placed at the interface between physics, social sciences and humanities. Dr. Scharnhorst has developed a specific framework (GOE_THE, which stands for Geometrically Oriented Evolutionary THEories) to describe processes of problem solving and learning as an evolutionary search process in unknown knowledge landscapes.

I got a Diploma in Physics at the Humboldt-University Berlin, and obtained my PhD in Philosophy of Science with a thesis about philosophical problems related to the application of  concepts and models from physics (self-organization theory) to better understand the devlopment of the science system. I worked as researcher at the Institute for the Theory, History and Organisation of Science (ITW) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. I was appointed at the Free University Berlin and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung for a couple of years working on projects such as“Survival Conditions of New Technologies. Substitution and Hyperselection - an Evolutionary Approach” and “Self-Organisation and Stratification in the Science System - Agents Between Global and Local Patterns”.

I came to the Netherlands in 2001, working at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, first at the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI) at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in the research group “Networked Research and Digital Information”  (NERDI) and later for the Virtual Knowledge Studio.

I published extensively about a wide variety of topics from science history, scientometrics to statistical physics. More recently, together with Andreas Pyka I edited a book on "Innovation Networks", and together with Katy Börner and Peter van den Besselaar a book on "Models of Science Dynamics", both with Springer, Complexity Series.

I'm interested to develop methods to map information spaces and to develop visual feedback when navigating through them. I'm also interested to better understand and describe the dynamics of these spaces, how they shape the way we acquire knowledge and how our knowledge production shapes them, and I would like analyze their dynamics. Concerning the last part, I'm interested in memory effects of information preservation, emergent structures and knowledge orders, and the visualization of career paths of academic researchers.


 

Publications

Tatum, Clifford and Nicholas Jankowski. 2012. "Beyond Open Access: a Framework for Openness in Scholarly Communication." In Virtual Knowledge, edited by Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt, MIT Press.

Jankowski, Nicholas, Andrea Scharnhorst, Clifford Tatum, and Zuotian Tatum. 2011. Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Developing Hybrid Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Utrecht: SURFfoundation Technical Report (available at SSRN), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1982380.

Börner, Katy and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2009. "Editorial: Visual conceptualizations and models of science." Journal of Informetrics: 'Science of Science: Conceptualizations and Models of Science' (special issue), 3 (3): 161-172.

Ebeling, Werner and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2009. "Selbstorganisation und Mobilität von Wissenschaftlern - Modelle für die Dynamik von Problemfeldern und Wissenschaftsgebieten." In Selbstorganisation in Wissenschaft und Technik: Wissenschaftsforschung Jahrbuch 2008, edited by Werner Ebeling and Heinrich Parthey, 9-27. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin.

Hartmann-Sonntag, Ingrid, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Werner Ebeling. 2009. "Sensitive Networks – Modelling Self-Organization and Innovation Processes in Networks." In Innovation Networks, New Approaches in Modelling and Analyzing Series, edited by Andreas Pyka and Andrea Scharnhorst, 285-329. Berlin et al: Springer, Understanding Complex Systems.

Pyka, Andreas and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2009. "Introduction: Network Perspectives on Innovations: Innovative Networks – Network Innovation." In Innovation Networks, New Approaches in Modelling and Analyzing, edited by Andreas Pyka and Andrea Scharnhorst, 1-19. Berlin et al: Springer, Understanding Complex Systems.

Scharnhorst, Andrea, Lutz Marz, and Thomas Aigle. 2009. Designing Survival Strategies for Propulsion Innovations. Preprint. Cornell University Library, 1-35.

Aigle, Thomas, Ante Krstacic-Galic, Lutz Marz, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2008. WZB discussion papers SP III 2008-102. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Berlin. 153.

Aigle, Thomas, Ante Krstacic-Galic, Lutz Marz, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2008. Busse als Wegbereiter. Zu einem frühen Markt für alternative Antriebe. WZB discussion papers SP III 2008-102, Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB).

Ausloos, Marcel, Renaud Lambiotte, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Iina Hellsten. 2008. "Andrzej Pekalski Networks of Scientific Interests with Internal Degrees of Freedom through Self-citation Analysis." International Journal of Modern Physics C, 19 (3): 371-384.

Ebeling, Werner, Marcel Ausloos, Janusz Ho?yst, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2008. "Evolution and Physics - Concepts, Models, and Applications. Conference report of the 401. WE Heraeus Seminar (in German)." Physik Journal, 7 (4): 67.

Leydesdorff, Loet, Thomas Schank, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Wouter de Nooy. 2008. "Animating the development of Social networks over time using a dynamic extension of multidimensional scaling." El professional de la información, 17 (6): 611-626.

Ortega, Jose, Isidro Aguillo, Viv Cothey, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2008. "Maps of the academic web in the European Higher Education Area — an exploration of visual web indicators." Scientometrics, 74 (2): 295-308.

Prabowo, Rudy, Mike Thelwall, Iina Hellsten, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2008. "Evolving debate in online communication: A graph analytical approach." Internet Research, 18 (5): 520-540.

Scharnhorst, Andrea and Paul Wouters. 2008. "The other grids: generating variety." iSGTW International Science Grid This Week.

Wouters, Paul, Katie Vann, Andrea Scharnhorst, Matt Ratto, Iina Hellsten, Jenny Fry, and Anne Beaulieu. 2008. "Messy Shapes of Knowledge - STS Explores Informatization, New Media, and Academic Work." In The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, edited by Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman, 319-353. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press.

Beaulieu, Anne, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Paul Wouters. 2007. "Not Another Case Study: A Middle-Range Interrogation of Ethnographic Case Studies in the Exploration of E-science." Science, Technology & Human Values, 32 (6): 672-692.

Hellsten, Iina, Renaud Lambiotte, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Marcel Ausloos. 2007. "Self-citations, co-authorships and keywords: A new approach to scientists' field mobility?" Scientometrics, 72 (3): 469-486.

Ebeling, Werner, Rainer Feistel, Ingrid Hartmann-Sonntag, Lutz Schimansky-Geier, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2006. "New species in evolving networks - stochastic theory of sensitive networks and applications on the metaphorical level." BioSystems, 85 (1): 65-71.

Erpenbeck, John, Andrea Scharnhorst, Werner Ebeling, D. Martens, C. Nachtigall, K. North, P. Friedrich, and A. Lantz. 2006. "QUEM report." 208.

Hellsten, Iina, Andrea Scharnhorst, Renaud Lambiotte, and Marcel Ausloos. 2006. "A journey through the landscape of physics and beyond." In Irreversible Prozesse und Selbstorganisation, edited by Thorsten Pöschel, Horst Malchow, and Lutz Schimansky-Geier, 375-384. Berlin: Logos Verlag.

Scharnhorst, Andrea, Peter van den Besselaar, and Paul Wouters. 2006. "What does the Web represent? From virtual ethnography to web indicators (Editorial, special issue)." Cybermetrics, 10 (1).

Scharnhorst, Andrea and Paul Wouters. 2006. "Web indicators – a new generation of S&T indicators?" Cybermetrics, 10 (1).

Scharnhorst, Andrea and Werner Ebeling. 2006. Metakompetenzen und Kompetenzentwicklung in Evolutions- und Selbstorganisationsmodellen. Die unumgaenglichen theoretischen Voraussetzungen. QUEM report Metakompetenzen und Kompetenzentwicklung, Heft 95/Teil I, QUEM, Berlin, Germany. 15-113.

Presentations

Akdag Salah, Almila, Cheng Gao, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Krzysztof Suchecki. 2010. "At search for a knowledge space – between classification schemes and knowledge flows." 2010, March 8. SARA, Science Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Akdag Salah, Almila, Cheng Gao, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Krzysztof Suchecki. 2010. "Design vs. Emergence: The structure of knowledge." 2010, May 25. Black Sea Resort ‘Sunny Beach’, Bulgaria.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2010. "Encounter between scientometrics and physics – Following the actors: individual and collective behavior in epistemic landscapes." 2010, March 21-26. Regensburg, Germany.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2010. "Maps for information navigators." 2010, February 15. Zürich, Switzerland.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2010. "Participated in the workshop ‘Towards a flagship for FET – FuturICT’." 2010, February 15-17. ETH Zurich, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and ETH Competence Center for ‘Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems’, Zürich, Switzerland.

Suchecki, Krzysztof, Almila Akdag Salah, Cheng Gao, Cheng Gao, Andrea Scharnhorst, and , ,. 2010. "Design vs Emergence: The structure of knowledge." Paper presented at BIFI 2010, IV International Congress, Networks: A framework for cross-disciplinary applications, at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, 2010, February 3-6. 2010, February 3. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Discussant for kick-off meeting 'Competition of beliefs'." 2009, February 2. Paderborn, Germany.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Data and Models: Physics and Information Sciences." 2009, February 2. Paderborn, Germany.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Innovation and networks." 2009, April 28. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Germany.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Modelling knowledge dynamics - the role of models, visualizations and mathematical models." 2009, May 27. La Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Why modeling science?" 2009, June 12. Wells library, SLIS, IU Bloomington, USA.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Walking through landscapes in construction - the use of dynamic models in information science." 2009, June 17. IU Bloomington, USA.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Chair of session of the WG 1 ‘Information and Knowledge’." 2009, May 27. La Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Modelling Knowledge Landscapes." 2009, October 9. IISH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Scharnhorst, Andrea and Katy Börner. 2009. "Models of Science – An Overview." 2009, October 7. Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "An evolutionary perspective on research diversity." 2009, September 24. Institute for Library and Information Science, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Conceptualizations of scientific structure and growth." 2009, June 17. IU Bloomington, USA.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2009. "Open Forum." 2009, January 22. Wolverhampton, UK.

Suchecki, Krzysztof and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2009. "From Ising model to socio-technical innovations - how to bridge the gap?" Paper presented at First Annual Meeting of COST action MP0108 ‘Physics of Competition and Conflicts’, linked to the international conference ‘NET 2009 evolution and complexity’, 2009, May 27-30. 2009, May 27. La Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy.

Wouters, Paul, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Krzysztof Suchecki. 2009. "An Agent Based Model of the Scientific and Scholarly System." 2009, October 8. Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Ebeling, Werner and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2008. "Selbstorganisation und Mobilität von Wissenschaftlern - Modelle für die Dynamik von Problemfeldern und Wissenschaftsgebieten [Self-organization and the mobility of researchers – models for the dynamics of problem fields and scientific specialties]." 2008, March 28. Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsforschung (GeWiF), Berlin, Germany.

Leydesdorff, Loet, Thomas Schank, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Wouter de Nooy. 2008. "Nodes in Evolving Networks – Scientific Journals as a Case of Dynamic Annimation." 2008, June 23-27. Norwich, UK.

Leydesdorff, Loet, Thomas Schank, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Wouter de Nooy. 2008. "Animating the development of Social Networks over time using a dynamic extension of multidimensional scaling." 2008, July 28 - August 1. Berlin, Germany.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2008. "Knowledge landscapes as adaptive landscapes - exploring knowledge transfer from physics to information science." 2010, January 22. Physikzentrum Bad Honeff, Germany.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2008. "The evolution of knowledge landscapes – measurement, visualization, models and simulations." 2008, May 14. Ghent University, Belgium.

Scharnhorst, Andrea, Werner Ebeling, and Mike Thelwall. 2008. "Transient innovations – the case of blog hypes." 2008, February 25. Berlin, Germany.

Suchecki, Krzysztof, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Janusz Ho?yst. 2008. "The role of networks in innovation spreading." 2008, December 18-19. UvA, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Suchecki, Krzysztof, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Janusz Ho?yst. 2008. "Majority dynamics on coupled networks - DuoNet simulator (CREEN workshop)." 2008, June 23. Norwich, UK.

Ausloos, Marcel, Renaud Lambiotte, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Iina Hellsten. 2007. "Andrzej Pekalski networks of scientific interests with internal degrees of freedom through self-citation analysis.".

Fry, Jenny, Charles van den Heuvel, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2007. "Crossing boundaries in e-research." 2007, October 11. Montreal, Canada.

Hellsten, Iina, Renaud Lambiotte, Andrea Scharnhorst, Marcel Ausloos, Daniel Torres-Salinas, and Henk Moed. 2007. "Self-citations networks as traces of scientific careers." 2007, June 26. Madrid, Spain.

Ho?yst, Janusz and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2007. "Introduction." 2007, January 17. Foundation Universitaire, Brussels, Belgium.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2007. "Workshop discussing the findings and policy recommendations of the AVROSS project." 2007, November 27. European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2007. "Simulation of Innovation – Simulation and Modeling as Innovation." 2007, July. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2007. "Exploring landscapes in science and beyond." 2007, September 20. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Scharnhorst, Andrea and Jenny Fry. 2007. "Science and Technology Studies views of e-social science (Invited panel organized and moderated)." 2007, October 7-9. Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Scharnhorst, Andrea, Iina Hellsten, Renaud Lambiotte, and Marcel Ausloos. 2007. "Critical Events, Landscapes, Networks and Mobility." 2007, January 17. Foundation Universitaire, Brussels, Belgium.

Ho?yst, Janusz and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2006. "Critical events in evolving networks - an introduction." 2006, July. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Liang, Liming, Lin Zhang, Hildrun Kretschmer, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2006. "Geographical and Lingual Preferences in Scientific Collaboration of the European Union (1994-2003)." Paper presented at International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics and Seventh COLLNET Meeting. Nancy, France.

Ortega, Jose, Isidro Aguillo, Viv Cothey, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2006. "9th International Science & Technology Indicators Conference." Leuven, Belgium. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Steunpunt O&O Statistieken, ALTERA bvba, Heverlee, 107-110.

Ortega, Jose, Isidro Aguillo, Viv Cothey, and Andrea Scharnhorst. 2006. "Maps of the Academic Web in the European Research Area - an Exploration of Visual Web Indicators." 2006, September 7-9. Leuven, Belgium.

Scharnhorst, Andrea. 2006. "Indicators from the web - making the invisible visible?" 2006, February 9-10. Oxford Internet Institute, UK.

Scharnhorst, Andrea and Mike Thelwall. 2006. "Webometrics for social sciences and humanities." 2006, November 2. Vancouver, Canada.