Biosecurity in an age of open science
Authors : James Andrew Smith, Jonas B. Sandbrink The risk of accidental or deliberate misuse of biological research is increasing as biotechnology advances. As ...
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Free access to scientific literature and its influence on the publishing activity in developing countries: The effect of Sci-Hub in the field of mathematics
Authors : Kilian Buehling, Matthias Geissler, Dorothea Strecker This paper investigates whether free access to scientific literature increases the participation...
Reshaping How Universities Can Evaluate the Research Impact of Open Humanities for Societal Benefit
Authors : Paul Longley Arthur, Lydia Hearn During the twenty-first century, for the first time, the volume of digital data has surpassed the amount of analog da...
Article Processing Charges, Altmetrics and Citation Impact: Is there an economic rationale?
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho The present study aims to analyze 1) the relationship between Citation Normalized Score of scientific publications and...
Why does library holding format really matter for book impact assessment?: Modelling the relationship between citations and altmetrics with print and electronic holdings
Author : Ashraf Maleki Scholarly books are important outputs in some fields and their many publishing formats seem to introduce opportunities to scrutinize thei...
How do scientific papers with different levels of journals spread online? Exploring the temporal dynamics in the diffusion processes
Authors : Renmeng Cao, Xiaoke Xu, Yunxue Cui, Zhizhao Fang, Xianwen Wang Social media has become an important channel for publicizing academic research, which p...
The production of scientific and societal value in research evaluation: a review of societal impact assessment methods
Authors : Jorrit P Smit, Laurens K Hessels Over the past two decades, several methods have been developed to evaluate the societal impact of research. Compared ...