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Tweets as impact indicators : examining the implications of automated “bot” accounts on Twitter
(2015-05-05)
This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific articles deposited on the preprint repository arXiv. It discusses the implication of the presence of ...
Estimating open access Mandate effectiveness : the MELIBEA score
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-12-23)
MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open‐access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the “strength” of open access (OA) mandates (registered in ROARMAP). ...
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 ...
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) ...
Is it such a big deal? On the cost of journal use in the digital era
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)
Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals—
known as big deals—that provide access to entire collections rather than
individual journals. Following this new model, size of serial collections ...
Factors affecting sex-related reporting in medical research : a cross-disciplinary bibliometric analysis
(Elsevier, 2019-02-15)
Background Clinical and preclinical studies have shown that there are sex-based differences at the genetic, cellular, biochemical, and physiological levels. Despite this, numerous studies have shown poor levels of inclusion ...
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 ...
A theoretical foundation for the ethical distribution of authorship in multidisciplinary publications
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)
In academia, authorship on publications confers merit as well as
responsibility. The respective disciplines adhere to their “typical” authorship
practices: individuals may be named in alphabetical order (e.g., in ...
Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact
(Public library of science, 2015-03-30)
Scholarly collaborations across disparate scientific disciplines are challenging. Collaborators are likely to have their offices in another building, attend different conferences, and publish in other venues; they might ...
Stability and longevity in the publication careers of U.S. doctorate recipients
(Public library of science, 2016-04-29)
Since the 1950s, the number of doctorate recipients has risen dramatically in the United
States. In this paper, we investigate whether the longevity of doctorate recipients’ publication careers has changed. This is achieved ...