The impact factors of open access and subscription journals across fields
« We have compared the 2-year and 5-year impact factors (IFs), normalized impact factors (NIFs) and rank normalized impact factors (RNIFs) of open access (OA) a...
Étiquette : research impact
Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
« African scholarly research is relatively invisible for three primary reasons: While research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is f...
Novel Research Impact Indicators
Citation counts and more recently usage statistics provide valuable information about the attention and research impact associated with scholarly publications. ...
Resourses of open access as a tool for…
Resourses of open access as a tool for formation of scientific rating of scientists : « Purpose. Scientific journals in open access play an important role in sc...
arXiv e-prints and the journal of record: An analysis of roles and relationships
Since its creation in 1991, arXiv has become central to the diffusion of research in a number of fields. Combining data from the entirety of arXiv and the Web o...
Data reuse and the open data citation advantage…
Data reuse and the open data citation advantage : « Background: Attribution to the original contributor upon reuse of published data is important both as a rewa...
Open Access and the Changing Landscape of Research…
Open Access and the Changing Landscape of Research Impact Indicators: New Roles for Repositories : « The debate about the need to revise metrics that evaluate r...