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On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge
(Springer, 2011-09-06)
Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000–2007 period, this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students ...
Illusions of a ‘Bond’: Tagging cultural products across online platforms
(Emerald, 2016-06-09)
La plupart des études sur l'étiquetage social porte sur une plateforme ou un type de plateforme précis, ce qui limite la portée de leurs résultats. Cette étude explore et compare les pratiques d'étiquetage social de quatre ...
Scientific collaboration and high-technology exchanges among BRICS and G-7 countries
(Springer, 2015-12-21)
Over the last two decades, emerging countries located outside North America and Europe have reshaped the global economy. These countries are also increasing their share of the world’s scientific output. This paper analyzes ...
The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus : a comparative analysis
(Springer, 2015-10-19)
Bibliometric methods are used in multiple fields for a variety of purposes,
namely for research evaluation. Most bibliometric analyses have in common their data
sources: Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier’s ...
Grand challenges in altmetrics : heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies
(Springer, 2016-03-14)
With increasing uptake among researchers, social media are finding their way into
scholarly communication and, under the umbrella term altmetrics, are starting to be utilized in
research evaluation. Fueled by technological ...
Characterization, description, and considerations for the use of funding acknowledgement data in Web of Science
(Springer, 2016-04-22)
Funding acknowledgements found in scientific publications have been used to study the impact of funding on research since the 1970s. However, no broad scale indexation of that paratextual element was done until 2008, when ...
The effect of collaborators on institutions’ scientific impact
(Springer, 2016-11)
The effect of collaborators on institutions scientific impact was examined for 81 institutions
with different degrees of impact and collaboration. Not only collaborators including both core and
peripheral collaborators ...
On the effects of the reunification on German researchers’ publication patterns
(Springer, 2017-01-28)
After developing independently following World War II, the research systems of East and West
Germany reunited at the end of the Cold War, resulting in Westernization of East German
Research institutions. Using data from ...