Glossary

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Term	Explanation
Author Network	SciX visualization that groups authors by co-author frequency; surveys the research landscape for a topic
bibstem	SciX abbreviation used for journal names and some other publication categories; it can be used as as search field
claiming a paper	process by which a researcher identifies themselves as one of the authors so that their ORCiD can be attached to a document that did not previously have that information
Concept Cloud	SciX visualization that compares frequency or uniqueness of title and abstract words against entire corpus; can be used to characterize work or to identify search terms
FAIR	Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reuseable, a set of principles for open data published by Wilkenson et al. in 2016 (DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.18) now colloquially generalized to most research artifacts.
ISNI	International Standard Name Identifier, a unique, persistent identifier for people and organizations of which ORCiDs are a subset
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Open Science	“Open science is a collaborative culture enabled by technology that empowers the open sharing of data, information, and knowledge within the scientific community and the wider public to accelerate scientific research and understanding.” – NASA Open Science
ORCiD	Open Researcher and Contributor ID, a unique, persistent identifier for researchers
Paper Network	SciX visualization that groups papers by topic through their references; can focus help narrow research questions or ensure completeness of literature review
Review	colloquial term for an article giving a broad overview of a field and summarizing its current state, some journals focus exclusively on soliciting such contributions
Reviews()	SciX second-order operator that analyzes citation lists; takes a higher-level view of a topic by asking what has this contributed to
second-order operator	query that takes as input the output of a previous query; in SciX, these frequently operate on sets of documents
Similar()	SciX second-order operator that analyzes the textual similarity of documents, returning results that are similar to the input text provided whether from single or multiple papers or directly typed sample
UAT	Unified Astronomy Thesaurus, a open, interoperable and community-supported thesaurus for astronomy, planetary science, and heliophysics concepts adopted by SciX and other programs as a FAIR vocabulary
Useful()	SciX second-order operator that analyzes the reference lists; takes a nitty-gritty approach to topic by asking what are researchers actually using
visualization	use of graphs and other graphical elements to convey information; can be an effective way of communicating complex relationships, such as SciX Paper and Author Networks
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization