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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 ...
The use of bibliometrics for assessing research : possibilities, limitations and adverse effects
(2015)
Researchers are used to being evaluated: publications, hiring, tenure and funding decisions are all based on the evaluation of research. Traditionally, this evaluation relied on judgement of peers but, in the ...
Multidimensional journal evaluation : analyzing scientific periodicals beyond the impact factor
(De Gruyter Saur, 2012)
Scientific communication depends primarily on publishing in journals. The most important indicator to determine the influence of a journal is the Impact Factor. Since this factor only measures the average number of citations ...
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 ...
Knowledge sharing in global health research : the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature
(BMC, 2017)
Background: In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has a highly endemic
potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential outbreaks; this journal is only available ...
Guest editorial : social media in scholarly communication
Social media in scholarly communication
(Emerald, 2015-05-18)
Social media in scholarly communication : a review of the literature and empirical analysis of Twitter use by SSHRC doctoral award recipients
(2015)
This report has been commissioned by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to analyze
the role that social media currently plays in scholarly communication as well as to what extent metrics derived
from ...
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 ...
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 ...