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On the relationship between interdisciplinarity and scientific impact
(Association for information science and technology, 2009-12-09)
This article analyzes the effect of interdisciplinarity on the scientific impact of individual articles. Using all the articles published in Web of Science in 2000, we define the degree of interdisciplinarity of a given ...
Are elite journals declining?
(Association for information science and technology, 2013-11-19)
Previous research indicates that during the past 20years, the highest-quality work has been published in anincreasingly diverse and larger group of journals. In thisarticle, we examine whether this diversification has ...
Changes in publication languages and citation practices and their effect on the scientific impact of Russian science (1993–2010)
(Wiley, 2012-03-28)
This paper analyses the effects of publication language on international scientific visibility of Russia
using the Web of Science. Like other developing and transition countries, it is subject to a growing pressure ...
The impact factor’s Matthew Effect : a natural experiment in bibliometrics
(Association for information science and technology, 2009-10-08)
Since the publication of Robert K. Merton’s theory of
cumulative advantage in science (Matthew Effect), several empirical studies have tried to measure its presence
at the level of papers, individual researchers, ...
The weakening relationship between the impact factor and papers' citations in the digital age
(Wiley, 2012-10-08)
Historically, papers have been physically bound to the journal in which they were
published but in the electronic age papers are available individually, no longer tied to
their respective journals. Hence, papers now can ...
The effect of university–industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications : the Canadian case, 1980–2005
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Previous research on university-industry collaboration in Canada concluded, using mean impact
factors as a proxy, that the scientific impact of such research is not inferior to that of university
research. Using ...
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) ...
Which scientific elites? : on the concentration of research funds, publications and citations
(Oxford University Press, 2010-03-01)
Using the population of all university professors (N=13,479) in the province of Quebec
(Canada), this paper analyses the concentration of funding, papers and citations at the level of
individual researchers. It shows ...