On the culture of open access: the Sci-hub paradox
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho Shadow libraries have gradually become key players of scientific knowledge dissemination, despite their illegality in ...
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Do open-access dermatology articles have higher citation counts than those with subscription-based access?
Authors : Fangyi Xie, Sherief Ghozy, David F. Kallmes, Julia S. Lehman Background Open-access (OA) publishing is increasingly prevalent in dermatology, and many...
Whose research benefits more from Twitter? On Twitter-worthiness of communication research and its role in reinforcing disparities of the field
Authors : Chung-hong Chan, Jing Zeng, Mike S. Schäfer Twitter has become an important promotional tool for scholarly work, but individual academic publications ...
Open access and its potential impact on public health – A South African perspective
Authors : Adéle Strydom, Juanita Mellet, Jeanne Van Rensburg, Ignatius Viljoen, Anastasios Athanasiadis, Michael S. Pepper Traditionally, access to research inf...
Deep Impact: A Study on the Impact of Data Papers and Datasets in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Authors : Barbara McGillivray, Paola Marongiu, Nilo Pedrazzini, Marton Ribary, Mandy Wigdorowitz, Eleonora Zordan The humanities and social sciences (HSS) have ...
Forecasting the publication and citation outcomes of COVID-19 preprints
Authors : Michael Gordon, Michael Bishop, Yiling Chen, Anna Dreber, Brandon Goldfedder, Felix Holzmeister, Magnus Johannesson, Yang Liu, Louisa Tran, Charles Tw...
Impact factions: assessing the citation impact of different types of open access repositories
Authors : Jonathan Wheeler, Ngoc‑Minh Pham, Kenning Arlitsch, Justin D. Shanks Institutional repositories (IR) maintained by research libraries play a central r...