Collaboration Diversity and Scientific Impact
Authors : Yuxiao Dong, Hao Ma, Jie Tang, Kuansan Wang The shift from individual effort to collaborative output has benefited science, with scientific work pursu...
Étiquette : research impact
Analysing researchers’ outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos
Authors : Mojisola Erdt, Htet Htet Aung, Ashley Sara Aw, Charlie Rapple, Yin-Leng Theng With the growth of scholarly collaboration networks and social communica...
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...
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...