Who needs access to research? Exploring the societal impact of open access
Author : ElHassan ElSabry Studies about open access (OA) have predominantly focused it impact on communication within the scholarly community. For example, many...
Étiquette : research impact
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...
Prevalence and citation advantage of gold open access in the subject areas of the Scopus database
Authors : Pablo Dorta-González, Yolanda Santana-Jiménez The potential benefit of open access (OA) in relation to citation impact has been discussed in the liter...
Scientist impact factor (SIF): a new metric for improving scientists’ evaluation?
Authors : Giuseppe Lippi, Camilla Mattiuzzi Background The publication of scientific research is the mainstay for knowledge dissemination, but is also an essent...
Claims About Benefits of Open Access to Society (Beyond Academia)
Author : ElHassan ElSabry This study tries to systematically identify claims about societal benefits of Open Access by analyzing different documents written by ...
Opening Up Communication: Assessing Open Access Practices in the Communication Studies Discipline
Author : Teresa Auch Schultz Introduction Open access (OA) citation effect studies have looked at a number of disciplines but not yet the field of communication...
Understanding the Impact of Early Citers on Long-Term Scientific Impact
Authors : Mayank Singh, Ajay Jaiswal, Priya Shree, Arindam Pal, Animesh Mukherjee, Pawan Goyal This paper explores an interesting new dimension to the challengi...