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 ...
Étiquette : research impact
Reconsidering the gold open access citation advantage postulate in a multidisciplinary context: an analysis of the subject categories in the Web of Science database 2009-2014
Authors : Pablo Dorta-González, Sara M. González-Betancor, María Isabel Dorta-González Since Lawrence in 2001 proposed the open access (OA) citation advantage,...
Science and Facebook: the same popularity law!
Authors : Zoltán Néda, Levente Varga, Tamás S. Biró The distribution of scientific citations for publications selected with different rules (author, topic, inst...
Does Online Access Promote Research in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence from Article-Level Data
Authors : Frank Mueller-Langer, Marc Scheufen, Patrick Waelbroeck Universities in developing countries have rarely been able to subscribe to academic journals i...
Research impact: a narrative review
Authors : Trisha Greenhalgh, James Raftery, Steve Hanney, Matthew Glover Impact occurs when research generates benefits (health, economic, cultural) in addition...
Article-Level Metrics (ALMs) of “Nature” Journal
Author : Chintha Nagabhushanam The main aim of scientific research is to systematically generate valid data which is measurable, reproducible, and testable, con...
Revisiting an open access monograph experiment: measuring citations and tweets 5 years later
Author : Ronald Snijder An experiment run in 2009 could not assess whether making monographs available in open access enhanced scholarly impact. This paper revi...