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Differences in personal and professional tweets of scholars
(Emerald, 2015-05-18)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that there were differences in the use of Twitter by
professors at AAU schools. Affordance use differed between the personal and professional tweets
of professors as categorized ...
Guest editorial : social media in scholarly communication
Social media in scholarly communication
(Emerald, 2015-05-18)
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 ...
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 ...
Estimating open access Mandate effectiveness : the MELIBEA score
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-12-23)
MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open‐access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the “strength” of open access (OA) mandates (registered in ROARMAP). ...
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 ...
On the compliance of women engineers with a gendered scientific system
(Public library of science, 2015-12-30)
There has been considerable effort in the last decade to increase the participation of
women in engineering through various policies. However, there has been little empirical
research on gender disparities in engineering ...
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 academic advantage : gender disparities in patenting
(Public library of science, 2015-05-27)
We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United
States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO). Our ...
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 ...