Altmetrics as a means of assessing scholarly output
« Career progression for scientists involves an assessment of their contribution to their field and a prediction of their future potential. Traditional measures...
Étiquette : research impact
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...
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...