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A multidimensional analysis of Aslib proceedings – using everything but the impact factor
(Emerald, 2014-07-15)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the journal impact factor (IF) is not able to reflect
the full impact of scholarly journals and provides an overview of alternative and complementary
methods in journal ...
Astrophysicists on Twitter : an in-depth analysis of tweeting and scientific publication behavior
(Emerald, 2014-05-19)
Purpose – This paper analyzes the tweeting behavior of 37 astrophysicists on Twitter and
compares their tweeting behavior with their publication behavior and citation impact to show
whether they tweet research-related ...
Tweets vs. Mendeley readers : how do these two social media metrics differ?
(Oldenbourg Verlag, 2014)
A set of 1.4 million biomedical papers was analyzed with regards to how often articles are
mentioned on Twitter or saved by users on Mendeley. While Twitter is a microblogging
platform used by a general audience to ...
On the citation lifecycle of papers with delayed recognition
(Elsevier, 2014-09-18)
Delayed recognition is a concept applied to articles that receive very few to no citations for a certain period of time following publication, before becoming actively cited. To determine whether such a time spent in ...
The role of handbooks in knowledge creation and diffusion : a case of science and technology studies
(Elsevier, 2014-07-09)
Genre is considered to be an important element in scholarly communication and in the practice of
scientific disciplines. However, scientometric studies have typically focused on a single genre, the journal
article. The ...
Relationships between interlibrary loan and research activity in Canada
(Association of college and research libraries, 2014)
Interlibrary Loan borrowing rates in academic libraries are influenced by an array of factors. This article explores the relationship between interlibrary loan borrowing activity and research activity at 42 Canadian academic ...
arXiv E‐prints and the journal of record : an analysis of roles and relationships
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)
Since its creation in 1991, arXiv has become central to the diffusion of research in a number of fields. Combining data from the entirety of arXiv and the Web of Science (WoS), this article investigates (a) the proportion ...
Team size matters : collaboration and scientific impact since 1900
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-11-06)
This paper provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration and
scientific impact, using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of addresses,
and number of countries) ...
The kiss of death? : the effect of being cited in a reviewon subsequent citations
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)
This article inquires into recent claims that citation in a review article provokes a decline in a paper’s later citation
count, these being instead given to the review. Using the Science Citation Index Expanded, we looked ...