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National differences in dissemination and use of open access literature
(Public Library of Science, 2022-08-09)
Open Access (OA) dissemination has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last decade, thanks to the implementation of several OA policies by funders and institutions, as well as the development of several new platforms ...
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 ...
From art to science : a bibliometric analysis of architectural scholarly production from 1980 to 2015
(Public Library of Science, 2022-11-03)
According to recent literature on “architecture” as a discipline, practical knowledge relevant
to its process of making has decreased in importance in favor of a more academic approach.
Using data derived from Ulrich’s ...
Who are the acknowledgees? An analysis of gender and academic status
(MIT Press, 2020-06-01)
Acknowledgements found in scholarly papers allow for credit attribution of nonauthor contributors. As such, they are associated with a different kind of recognition than authorship. While several studies have shown that ...
Collection development in the era of big deals
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021)
Drawing on an original methodology using citations, downloads, and survey data, this paper analyzes journal usage patterns across 28 Canadian universities. Results show that usage levels vary across disciplines and that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Costly collaborations : the impact of scientific fraud on co-authors’ careers
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-01-30)
Over the last few years, several major scientific fraud cases have shocked the scientific
community. The number of retractions each year has also increased tremendously, especially in
the biomedical field, and scientific ...
Words by the tail : assessing lexical diversity in scholarly titles using frequency-rank distribution tail fits
(Public library of science, 2018-07-09)
This research assesses the evolution of lexical diversity in scholarly titles using a new indicator based on zipfian frequency-rank distribution tail fits. At the operational level, while both
head and tail fits of zipfian ...
The rise of the middle author : investigating collaboration and division of labor in biomedical research using partial alphabetical authorship
(Public library of science, 2017-09-14)
Contemporary biomedical research is performed by increasingly large teams. Consequently, an increasingly large number of individuals are being listed as authors in the bylines, which complicates the proper attribution of ...