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...
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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...
Working with publication technology to make open access journals sustainable
Authors : Marcel Wrzesinski, Patrick Urs Riechert, Frédéric Dubois, Christian Katzenbach Over the last 25 years, scholars around the world have used electronic ...
Open Access and Academic Freedom: Teasing Out Some Important Nuances
Author : Rick Anderson Discussion of the ways in which open access (OA) and academic freedom interact is fraught for a number of reasons, not least of which is ...
Openness in Big Data and Data Repositories. The Application of an Ethics Framework for Big Data in Healthand Research
Authors : Vicki Xafis, Markus K. Labude There is a growing expectation, or even requirement, for researchers to deposit a variety of research data in data repos...