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A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions
(2016-09)
Although the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is widely acknowledged to be a poor indicator of the quality of individual papers, it is used routinely to evaluate research and researchers. Here, we present a simple method for ...
Is science built on the shoulders of women? : a study of gender differences in contributorship
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2016-08)
Purpose: Women remain underrepresented in the production of scientific literature and
relatively little is known regarding the labor roles played by women in the production of
knowledge. This research examines these labor ...
The sum of it all : revealing collaboration patterns by combining authorship and acknowledgements
(Elsevier, 2016-12-01)
Acknowledgments are one of many conventions by which researchers publicly bestow recognition towards individuals, organizations and institutions that contributed in some way to the work that led to publication. Combining ...
On the composition of scientific abstracts
(Emerald, 2016-07-11)
Purpose
Scientific abstracts reproduce only part of the information and the complexity of argumentation in a scientific article. The purpose of this paper provides a first analysis of the similarity between the text of ...
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 ...
Researchers’ individual publication rate has not increased in a century
(Public library of science, 2016-03-09)
Debates over the pros and cons of a “publish or perish” philosophy have inflamed academia
for at least half a century. Growing concerns, in particular, are expressed for policies that
reward “quantity” at the expense of ...
How many is too many? : on the relationship between research productivity and impact
(Public library of science, 2016-09-28)
Over the last few decades, the institutionalisation of quantitative research evaluations has
created incentives for scholars to publish as many papers as possible. This paper assesses
the effects of such incentives on ...
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 ...
The linguistic patterns and rhetorical structure of citation context : an approach using n-grams
(Springer, 2016)
Using the full-text corpus of more than 75,000 research articles published by seven PLOS journals, this paper
proposes a natural language processing approach for identifying the function of citations. Citation contexts ...
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 ...