Research impact evaluation and academic discourse
Author : Marta Natalia Wróblewska The introduction of ‘impact’ as an element of assessment constitutes a major change in the construction of research evaluation...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Assessment of gender divide in scientific communities
Authors : Antonio De Nicola, Gregorio D’Agostino Increasing evidence of women’s under-representation in some scientific disciplines is prompting researchers to ...
Accuracy of PubMed-based author lists of publications and use of author identifiers to address author name ambiguity: a cross-sectional study
Authors : Paul Sebo, Sylvain de Lucia, Nathalie Vernaz Objective To assess the accuracy of PubMed-based author lists of publications and use of author identifie...
The aging effect in evolving scientific citation networks
Authors : Feng Hu, Lin Ma, Xiu-Xiu Zhan, Yinzuo Zhou, Chuang Liu, Haixing Zhao, Zi-Ke Zhang The study of citation networks is of interest to the scientific comm...
What is the benefit from publishing a working paper in a journal in terms of citations? Evidence from economics
Authors : Klaus Wohlraben, Constantin Bürgi Many papers in economics that are published in peer reviewed journals are initially released in widely circulated wo...
An analysis of the factors affecting open access to research output in institutional repositories in selected universities in East Africa
Author : Miriam Kakai INTRODUCTION Institutional repositories (IRs) present universities with an opportunity to provide global open access (OA) to their scholar...
Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations
Author : Vincent A Traag Articles in high-impact journals are, on average, more frequently cited. But are they cited more often because those articles are someh...