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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... -
How Are Academic Age, Productivity and Collaboration Related to Citing Behavi...
References are an essential component of research articles and therefore of scientific communication. In this study we investigate referencing (citing) behavior in five diverse... -
The Association between Four Citation Metrics and Peer Rankings of Research I...
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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.... -
Evaluating Research and Impact: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research by the NI...
Evaluative bibliometrics uses advanced techniques to assess the impact of scholarly work in the context of other scientific work and usually compares the relative scientific... -
The citation advantage of linking publications to research data
Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging or mandating authors to provide data availability statements.... -
Substantial Agreement of Referee Recommendations at a General Medical Journal...
Background Peer review is the mainstay of editorial decision making for medical journals. There is a dearth of evaluations of journal peer review with regard to reliability... -
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... -
Every fifth published metagenome is not available to science
Have you ever sought to use metagenomic DNA sequences reported in scientific publications? Were you successful? Here, we reveal that metagenomes from no fewer than 20% of the... -
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... -
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of eleven open-access mega-journals (OAMJs). OAMJs are a relatively recent phenomenon, and have been... -
Use of Trial Register Information during the Peer Review Process
Introduction Evidence in the medical literature suggests that trial registration may not be preventing selective reporting of results. We wondered about the place of such... -
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... -
The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented?
Women comprise a minority of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) workforce. Quantifying the gender gap may identify fields that will not... -
Equal Contributions and Credit: An Emerging Trend in the Characterization of ...
BACKGROUND: The practice of giving certain authors equal credit in original research publications was increasingly common in some specialty. This study aimed to investigate the...
