A “basket of metrics”—the best support for understanding journal merit
Authors : Lisa Colledge, Chris James Aim To survey opinion of the assertion that useful metricbased input requires a “basket of metrics” to allow more varied an...
Étiquette : research impact
Do funding applications where peer reviewers disagree have higher citations? A cross-sectional study
Authors : Adrian G Barnett, Scott R. Glisson, Stephen Gallo Background Decisions about which applications to fund are generally based on the mean scores of a pa...
How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion, and tenure documents?
Authors : Juan Pablo Alperin, Gustavo E. Fischman, Erin C. McKiernan, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Meredith T. Niles, Lesley Schimanski Much of the work of universities,...
Plurality in multi-disciplinary research: multiple institutional affiliations are associated with increased citations
Authors : Paul Sanfilippo, Alex W. Hewitt, David A. Mackey Background The institutional affiliations and associated collaborative networks that scientists fost...
What increases (social) media attention: Research impact, author prominence or title attractiveness?
Authors : Olga Zagovora, Katrin Weller, Milan Janosov, Claudia Wagner, Isabella Peters Do only major scientific breakthroughs hit the news and social media, or ...
Do all citations value the same? Valuing citations by the value of the citing items
Authors : Cristiano Giuffrida, Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo Bibliometricians have long recurred to citation counts to measure the impact of pu...
The Scientific Prize Network Predicts Who Pushes the Boundaries of Science
Authors : Yifang Ma, Brian Uzzi Scientific prizes are among the greatest recognition a scientist receives from their peers and arguably shape the direction of a...