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A Measure of Total Research Impact Independent of Time and Discipline
Authorship and citation practices evolve with time and differ by academic discipline. As such, indicators of research productivity based on citation records are naturally... -
Universities scale like cities.
Recent studies of urban scaling show that important socioeconomic city characteristics such as wealth and innovation capacity exhibit a nonlinear, particularly a power law... -
The Altmetrics Collection
What paper should I read next? Who should I talk to at a conference? Which research group should get this grant? Researchers and funders alike must make daily judgments on how... -
Impact of GDP, spending on RD, number of universities and scientific journals...
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to compare the impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, spending on Research and Development (R&D), number of universities, and... -
Estimates of the Continuously Publishing Core in the Scientific Workforce
BACKGROUND: The ability of a scientist to maintain a continuous stream of publication may be important, because research requires continuity of effort. However, there is no data... -
Bibliometric Evidence for a Hierarchy of the Sciences
The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences, first formulated in the 19(th) century, predicts that, moving from simple and general phenomena (e.g. particle dynamics) to... -
To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work.
As rates of traditional sources of scientific funding decline, scientists have become increasingly interested in crowdfunding as a means of bringing in new money for research.... -
The H-Index as a Quantitative Indicator of the Relative Impact of Human Diseases
Assessment of the relative impact of diseases and pathogens is important for agencies and other organizations charged with providing disease surveillance, management and... -
Database citation in full text biomedical articles.
Molecular biology and literature databases represent essential infrastructure for life science research. Effective integration of these data resources requires that there are... -
The number of scholarly documents on the public web.
The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engines: Google Scholar... -
Quantifying the Impact and Relevance of Scientific Research
Qualitative and quantitative methods are being developed to measure the impacts of research on society, but they suffer from serious drawbacks associated with linking a piece of... -
Network Effects on Scientific Collaborations
Background: The analysis of co-authorship network aims at exploring the impact of network structure on the outcome of scientific collaborations and research publications.... -
A simple index for the high-citation tail of citation distribution to quantif...
BACKGROUND: Conventional scientometric predictors of research performance such as the number of papers, citations, and papers in the top 1% of highly cited papers cannot be... -
Trends in Citations to Books on Epidemiological and Statistical Methods in th...
BackgroundThere are no analyses of citations to books on epidemiological and statistical methods in the biomedical literature. Such analyses may shed light on how concepts and... -
Rising Publication Delays Inflate Journal Impact Factors
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, e Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio... -
How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Dow...
We analyze the online response to the preprint publication of a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and May... -
Academic Impact of a Public Electronic Health Database: Bibliometric Analysis...
Background Studies that use electronic health databases as research material are getting popular but the influence of a single electronic health database had not been well... -
Species Distribution Models and Impact Factor Growth in Environmental Journal...
In this work, I evaluate the impact of species distribution models (SDMs) on the current status of environmental and ecological journals by asking the question to which degree... -
Comparative study of scientific publications in urology and nephrology journa...
BACKGROUND: In the past decade, scientific research has developed rapidly in China, but the growth seems to vary widely between different disciplines. In this study, we aimed to... -
Social media release increases dissemination of original articles in the clin...
A barrier to dissemination of research is that it depends on the end-user searching for or 'pulling' relevant knowledge from the literature base. Social media instead 'pushes'...
