Open Access Meets Discoverability: Citations to Articles Posted to Academia.edu
Using matching and regression analyses, we measure the difference in citations between articles posted to Academia.edu and other articles from similar journals,...
Étiquette : research impact
Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact
What does it mean to have meaningful metrics in today’s complex higher education landscape? With a foreword by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem, this highly enga...
Tweets Do Measure Non – Citational Intellectual Impact
Purpose The aim of the paper is to identify the motive behind the social media indicators in focus to tweets and attempts to identify what is measured or indica...
Wikiometrics: A Wikipedia Based Ranking System
We present a new concept – Wikiometrics – the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia. Wikipedia provides an accurate representation of ...
Evaluating the Impact of Open Access at Berkeley: Results from the 2015 Survey of Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) Funding Recipients
The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) was one of the first campus-based open access (OA) funds to be established in North America and one of the most a...
Examining the Impact of the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy on the Citation Rates of Journal Articles
Purpose To examine whether National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded articles that were archived in PubMed Central (PMC) after the release of the 2008 NIH Publ...
The data sharing advantage in astrophysics
We present here evidence for the existence of a citation advantage within astrophysics for papers that link to data. Using simple measures based on publication ...