Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
Authors : Misha Teplitskiy, Grace Lu, Eamon Duede With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its rep...
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Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns
« A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research ...
Attention decay in science
« The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to th...
The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention
« In this study, we compare the difference in the impact between open access (OA) and non-open access (non-OA) articles. 1761 Nature Communications articles pub...
Availability and accessibility in an open access institutional repository: a case study
« Introduction. This study explores the extent to which an institutional repository (IR) makes papers available and accessible on the open web by using 170 jour...
Will Open Access Get Me Cited? An Analysis of the Efficacy of Open Access Publishing in Political Science
« The digital revolution has made it easier for political scientists to share and access high-quality research online. However, many articles are stored in prop...
Return on citation: a consistent metric to evaluate papers, journals and researchers
« Evaluating and comparing the academic performance of a journal, a researcher or a single paper has long remained a critical, necessary but also controversial ...