How common are explicit research questions in journal articles?
Authors : Mike Thelwall, Amalia Mas-Bleda Although explicitly labeled research questions seem to be central to some fields, others do not need them. This may co...
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Does the use of open, non-anonymous peer review in scholarly publishing introduce bias? Evidence from the F1000 post-publication open peer review publishing model
Authors : Mike Thelwall, Verena Weigert, Liz Allen, Zena Nyakoojo, Eleanor-Rose Papas This study examines whether there is any evidence of bias in two areas of ...
Large publishing consortia produce higher citation impact research but co-author contributions are hard to evaluate
Author : Mike Thelwall This paper introduces a simple agglomerative clustering method to identify large publishing consortia with at least 20 authors and 80% sh...
Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?
Authors : Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles a...
Readership Data and Research Impact
Authors : Ehsan Mohammadi, Mike Thelwall Reading academic publications is a key scholarly activity. Scholars accessing and recording academic publications onlin...
How quickly do publications get read? The evolution of Mendeley reader counts for new articles
Authors : Nabeil Maflahi, Mike Thelwall Within science, citation counts are widely used to estimate research impact but publication delays mean that they are no...
Do ResearchGate Scores create ghost academic reputations?
Authors : Enrique Orduna-Malea, Alberto Martin-Martin, Mike Thelwall, Emilio Delgado Lopez-Cozar The academic social network site ResearchGate (RG) has its own ...