A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
Authors : Vincent Larivière, Véronique Kiermer, Catriona J. MacCallum, Marcia McNutt, Mark Patterson, Bernd Pulverer, Sowmya Swaminathan, Stuart Taylor, Stephen...
Étiquette : research impact
Open access publishing trend analysis: statistics beyond the perception
Authors : Elisabetta Poltronieri, Elena Bravo, Moreno Curti, Maurizio Ferri, Cristina Mancini Introduction The purpose of this analysis was twofold: to track th...
Can Scientific Impact Be Predicted?
Authors : Yuxiao Dong, Reid A. Johnson, Nitesh V. Chawla A widely used measure of scientific impact is citations. However, due to their heavy-tailed distributio...
Are Wikipedia Citations Important Evidence of the Impact of Scholarly Articles and Books?
Authors : Kayvan Koush, Mike Thelwall Individual academics and research evaluators often need to assess the value of published research. Whilst citation counts ...
Quantifying the changing role of past publications
Our current societies increasingly rely on electronic repositories of collective knowledge. An archetype of these databases is the Web of Science (WoS) that sto...
The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged st...
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators
Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bib...