« A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is to enhance its citation or social impact, an effect which has been empirically observed for preprints in physics, astronomy and mathematics deposited to arXiv. In this study we assessed the citation and altmetric advantage of bioRxiv, a…
« This paper introduces a simple agglomerative clustering method to identify large publishing consortia with at least 20 authors and 80% shared authorship between articles. Based on Scopus journal articles 1996-2018, under these criteria, nearly all (88%) of the large consortia published research with citation impact above the world average, with…
« Over the past few decades, there has been an increase in the number of open access (OA) journals in almost all disciplines. This increase in OA journals was accompanied an increase in funding to support such movements. Medical fields are among the highest funded fields, which further promoted its journals…
« How does usage of an article relate to the number of citations it accrues? Does the timeframe in which an article is used (and how much that article is used) have an effect on when and how much that article is cited? What role does an article’s subject area play…
« The citation impact of scientific publications is usually seen as a one-dimensional concept. We introduce a three-dimensional perspective on the citation impact of publications. In addition to the level of citation impact, quantified by the number of citations received by a publication, we also conceptualize and operationalize the depth and…
« Quelles publications sont Open Access ? Combien de fois sont-elles citées ? Font-elles l’objet de reprise sur Twitter ? Ont-elles des datasets associés ? Autant de questions qui nécessitent d’interroger plusieurs sources avant de pouvoir commencer l’analyse. Mais si on ne maîtrise pas certains outils ou langages informatiques, la collecte et la compilation…
« We explore the degree to which papers prepublished on arXiv garner more citations, in an attempt to paint a sharper picture of fairness issues related to prepublishing. A paper’s citation count is estimated using a negative-binomial generalized linear model (GLM) while observing a binary variable which indicates whether the paper…
« The Identifiers Expert Group of the FORCE11 Data Citation Implementation Pilot (DCIP) has achieved a significant step toward the harmonization of identifier resolution standards for data citation in research articles. (…) »
« This document presents a roadmap for the Finnish research community for implementing research datacitation practices. The roadmap consists of an evaluation of the current situation, description of the target state and recommendations on measures that would lead from the current situation to the target state. It also presents an information…
« (…) At present, scientometricians typically obtain citation data from Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, two proprietary data sources. In this post, we provide empirical insights into the value of Crossref as a new source of citation data. We compare Crossref with WoS and Scopus, focusing on the citation data…
