Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation
Author : Erwin Krauskopf The National Agency of Research and Development from Chile is proposing, for the first time, a national OA policy aiming to ensure acce...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Over-promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID-19 crisis
Authors : Frederique Bordignon, Liana Ermakova, Marianne Noel The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the benefit o...
Do researchers know what the h-index is? And how do they estimate its importance?
Authors : Pantea Kamrani, Isabelle Dorsch, Wolfgang G. Stock The h-index is a widely used scientometric indicator on the researcher level working with a simple ...
TeamTree analysis: A new approach to evaluate scientific production
Author : Frank W. Pfrieger Advances in science and technology depend on the work of research teams and the publication of results through peer-reviewed articles...
Article Processing Charges based publications: to which extent the price explains scientific impact?
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho The present study aims to analyze relationship between Citations Normalized Score (NCS) of scientific publications and...
From indexation policies through citation networks to normalized citation impacts: Web of Science, Scopus, and Dimensions as varying resonance chambers
Authors : Stephan Stahlschmidt, Dimity Stephen Dimensions was introduced as an alternative bibliometric database to the well-established Web of Science (WoS) an...
Researchers’ attitudes towards the h-index on Twitter 2007–2020: criticism and acceptance
Authors : Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha The h-index is an indicator of the scientific impact of an academic publishing career. Its hybrid publishing/citation nat...