« Based on three decades of citation data from across scientific fields of science, we study trends in impact factor biased self-citations of scholarly journals, using a purpose-built and easy to use citation based measure. Our measure is given by the ratio between i) the relative share of journal…
« This note presents data from the 1science oaIndx on the average of relative citations (ARC) for 3.3 million papers published from 2007 to 2009 and indexed in the Web of Science (WoS). These data show a decidedly large citation advantage for open access (OA) papers, despite them suffering…
« Reproducibility and reusability of research results is an important concern in scientific communication and science policy. A foundational element of reproducibility and reusability is the open and persistently available presentation of research data.
However, many common approaches for primary data publication in use today do not…
« (…) Frequently perceived detrimental effects of contemporary publication culture were the strong focus on citation measures (like the Journal Impact Factor and the H-index), gift and ghost authorships and the order of authors, the peer review process, competition, the funding system and publication bias. These themes were generally…
« Dan Penny, Head of Insights at Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan, shares findings from the recent Author Insights Survey. The survey data is openly available and offers an extensive look into researcher perceptions and understandings of academic publishing. Few researchers are now unaware of open access. But…
« … Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in organizing and converting content into digital formats, announced today the start of the second phase of the Scopus Cited References Expansion Program. To date, DCL has converted and enriched 3.7 million Elsevier, American Physical Society (APS)…
« Plus on cite un grand nombre de disciplines dans un article scientifique, plus celui-ci est cité à son tour par d’autres chercheurs. Et, si certaines spécialités ont un effet plus marqué sur le plan de la portée scientifique, les travaux interdisciplinaires les plus mentionnés sont ceux qui comportent…
« Ce dossier est la reproduction (avec l’aimable autorisation d’AEF) d’une interview de Thierry Fournier pilote de la commission Recherche et documentation de l’ADBU réalisée par Cyril Duchamp, journaliste à AEF.
Quelles sont les différentes métriques possibles pour évaluer la production scientifique ?…
« … La journée a commencé par une mise en perspective sur l’économie des sciences et la scientométrie par Nicolas Carayol. Daniel Égret a ensuite présenté un exemple de la valorisation de la production scientifique d’un établissement à travers le cas de PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres). Paul Thirion a…
