Standardising and harmonising research data policy in scholarly publishing
Authors : Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Aliaksandr Birukou, Mathias Astell, Sowmya Swaminathan, Amye Kenall, Varsha Khodiyar To address the complexities researchers face...
Étiquette : scientific communication
What do computer scientists tweet? Analyzing the link-sharing practice on Twitter
Authors : Marco Schmitt, Robert Jäschke Twitter communication has permeated every sphere of society. To highlight and share small pieces of information with pos...
Academics’ behaviors and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals
Authors : Jennifer Rowley, Frances Johnson, Laura Sbaffi, Will Frass, Elaine Devine While there is significant progress with policy and a lively debate regardin...
How quickly do publications get read? The evolution of Mendeley reader counts for new articles
Authors : Nabeil Maflahi, Mike Thelwall Within science, citation counts are widely used to estimate research impact but publication delays mean that they are no...
Toward a homogenization of academic social sites: a longitudinal study of profiles in Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citations and ResearchGate
Author : José Luis Ortega Purpose The main objective is to analyse the distribution of profiles from academic social networking sites according to disciplines, ...
Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation
Authors : Julia A. Lovett, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Divana Boukari, Corey Lang INTRODUCTION The popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Acade...
The unbearable emptiness of tweeting — About journal articles
Authors : Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Kimberley Isett, Julia Melkers, Diana Hicks Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sc...