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Authorial and institutional stratification in open access publishing : the case of global health research
(PeerJ, 2018-02-19)
Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global Health research,
we examine institutional sources of stratification in publishing access outcomes.
Traditionally, the focus on inequality in 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 ...
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics : a review of the literature
(Wiley, 2017-09)
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental
ways: principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the promotion of new indicators on
the basis ...
Big publishers, bigger profits : how the scholarly community lost the control of its journals
(Carleton University. Department of English language and literature, 2015)
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic ...
Tweeting biomedicine : an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature
(Association for information science and technology, 2013-11-26)
Data collected by social media platforms have been introduced as new sources for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation analysis. Data generated ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...