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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 ...
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 ...
Guest editorial : social media in scholarly communication
Social media in scholarly communication
(Emerald, 2015-05-18)
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 ...
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 ...
Characterizing social media metrics of scholarly papers : the effect of document properties and collaboration patterns
(Public library of science, 2015-03-17)
A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research impact. Despite
their current popularity, there is a lack of ...
The oligopoly of academic publishers in the digital era
(Public Library of Science, 2015-06-10)
The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate
within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers’ high
profit margins. However, the share ...
Big publishers, bigger profits : how the scholarly community lost the control of its journals
(Carleton University. Department of English language and literature, 2015)
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic ...