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Team size matters : collaboration and scientific impact since 1900
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-11-06)
This paper provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration and
scientific impact, using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of addresses,
and number of countries) ...
The kiss of death? : the effect of being cited in a reviewon subsequent citations
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)
This article inquires into recent claims that citation in a review article provokes a decline in a paper’s later citation
count, these being instead given to the review. Using the Science Citation Index Expanded, we looked ...
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). ...
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 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 state of OA : a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
(PeerJ, 2018-02-13)
Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet
need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and
characteristics of OA. We address this need ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published research
(Public library of science, 2018-08-14)
Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in industrial and governmental
settings, but very little empirical evidence exists about the phenomenon. This article provides a systematic and historical analysis ...
Do altmetrics work? Twitter and ten other social web services
(Public library of science, 2013-05-28)
Altmetric measurements derived from the social web are increasingly advocated and used as early indicators of article
impact and usefulness. Nevertheless, there is a lack of systematic scientific evidence that altmetrics ...