The role of online search platforms in scientific diffusion
Author : Kyriakos Drivas After the launch of Google Scholar older papers experienced an increase in their citations, a finding consistent with a reduction in se...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Publish or perish? Innovative models for scholarly publishing in Zimbabwe
Authors : Nomsa Chirisa, Mpho Ngoepe Innovative publishing models have emerged to meet the demands of the ‘publish or perish’ philosophy prevalent in academic a...
The Costs of Open Access Publication: A Case Study at Catalan Universities
Authors : Ángel Borrego, Lluís Anglada This article explores the financial dynamics of open access (OA) publication in Catalan universities by combining four da...
The use of ChatGPT for identifying disruptive papers in science: a first exploration
Authors : Lutz Bornmann, Lingfei Wu, Christoph Ettl ChatGPT has arrived in quantitative research evaluation. With the exploration in this Letter to the Editor, ...
When researchers pay to publish: Results from a survey on APCs in four countries
Authors : Osvaldo Gallardo, Matías Milia, André Luiz Appel, Grip-APC Team, François van Schalkwyk This paper provides an empirical overview of the impact and pr...
Altmetric.com or PlumX: Does it matter?
Authors : Behrooz Rasuli, Majid Nabavi Facing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, medical publishers rose to the occasion, moving to make their fu...
Academic writing in the age of AI: Comparing the reliability of ChatGPT and Bard with Scopus and Web of Science
Authors : Swati Garg, Asad Ahmad, Dag Øivind Madsen ChatGPT and Bard (now known as Gemini) are becoming indispensable resources for researchers, academicians an...