Citation Count Analysis for Papers with Preprints
Authors : Sergey Feldman, Kyle Lo, Waleed Ammar We explore the degree to which papers prepublished on arXiv garner more citations, in an attempt to paint a shar...
Étiquette : research impact
Measuring Scientific Broadness
Authors : Tom Price, Sabine Hossenfelder Who has not read letters of recommendations that comment on a student’s `broadness’ and wondered what to ma...
The Journal Impact Factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects
Authors : Vincent Lariviere, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is, by far, the most discussed bibliometric indicator. Since its introduction o...
Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research
Author : Qing Ke Traditionally, the number of citations that a scholarly paper receives from other papers is used as the proxy of its scientific impact. Yet cit...
Tweet success? Scientific communication correlates with increased citations in Ecology and Conservation
Authors : Clayton T. Lamb, Sophie L. Gilbert, Adam T. Ford Science communication is seen as critical for the disciplines of ecology and conservation, where res...
Ethnic Diversity Increases Scientific Impact
Authors : Bedoor K AlShebli, Talal Rahwan, Wei Lee Woon Inspired by the numerous social and economic benefits of diversity, we analyze over 9 million papers and...
Gathering the Needles: Evaluating the Impact of Gold Open Access Content With Traditional Subscription Journals
Authors : Alison Boba, Jill Emery Utilizing the Project COUNTER Release 4 JR1-GOA report, two librarians explore these data in comparison to journal package sub...