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07/28/2023
Are Scopus journal field classifications ever misleading?
Journal field classifications in Scopus are used for citation-based indi...
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12/11/2022
Can REF output quality scores be assigned by AI? Experimental evidence
This document describes strategies for using Artificial Intelligence (AI...
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12/11/2022
Artificial intelligence technologies to support research assessment: A review
This literature review identifies indicators that associate with higher ...
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12/11/2022
Terms in journal articles associating with high quality: Can qualitative research be world-leading?
Purpose: Scholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their s...
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12/11/2022
In which fields do higher impact journals publish higher quality articles?
The Journal Impact Factor and other indicators that assess the average c...
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12/11/2022
Is Research Funding Always Beneficial? A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of UK Research 2014-20
The search for and management of external funding now occupies much valu...
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12/11/2022
Are internationally co-authored journal articles better quality? The UK case 2014-2020
International collaboration is sometimes encouraged in the belief that i...
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12/11/2022
In which fields are citations indicators of research quality?
Citation counts are widely used as indicators of research quality to sup...
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12/11/2022
Is big team research fair in national research assessments? The case of the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021
Collaborative research causes problems for research assessments because ...
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12/11/2022
Why are co-authored academic articles more cited: Higher quality or larger audience?
Co-authored articles tend to be more cited in many academic fields, but ...
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12/11/2022
Do bibliometrics introduce gender, institutional or interdisciplinary biases into research evaluations?
Systematic evaluations of publicly funded research typically employ a co...
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12/11/2022
Predicting article quality scores with machine learning: The UK Research Excellence Framework
National research evaluation initiatives and incentive schemes have prev...
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12/11/2022
Do altmetric scores reflect article quality? Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021
Altmetrics are web-based quantitative impact or attention indicators for...
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04/24/2021
Is research with qualitative data more prevalent and impactful now? Interviews, case studies, focus groups and ethnographies
Researchers, editors, educators and publishers need to understand the mi...
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04/19/2021
Cures, Treatments and Vaccines for Covid-19: International differences in interest on Twitter
Since the Covid-19 pandemic is a global threat to health that few can fu...
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03/25/2021
Can Twitter Give Insights into International Differences in Covid-19 Vaccination? Eight countries' English tweets to 21 March 2021
Vaccination programs may help the world to reduce or eliminate Covid-19....
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02/08/2021
A Bayesian Hurdle Quantile Regression Model for Citation Analysis with Mass Points at Lower Values
Quantile regression presents a complete picture of the effects on the lo...
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11/25/2020
Exploring WorldCat Identities as an altmetric information source: A library catalog analysis experiment in the field of Scientometrics
Assessing the impact of scholarly books is a difficult research evaluati...
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06/14/2020
Pot, kettle: Nonliteral titles aren't (natural) science
Researchers may be tempted to attract attention through poetic titles fo...
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06/06/2020
Coronavirus research before 2020 is more relevant than ever, especially when interpreted for COVID-19
The speed with which biomedical researchers were able to identify and ch...
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05/23/2020
All downhill from the PhD? The typical impact trajectory of US academic careers
Within academia, mature researchers tend to be more senior, but do they ...
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04/29/2020
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations' COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations
New sources of citation data have recently become available, such as Mic...
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04/25/2020
A gender equality paradox in academic publishing: Countries with a higher proportion of female first-authored journal articles have larger first author gender disparities betwe
Current attempts to address the shortfall of female researchers in Scien...
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04/22/2020
COVID-19 publications: Database coverage, citations, readers, tweets, news, Facebook walls, Reddit posts
The COVID-19 pandemic requires a fast response from researchers to help ...
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04/06/2020
A thematic analysis of highly retweeted early COVID -19 tweets: Consensus, information, dissent, and lockdown life
Purpose: Public attitudes towards COVID-19 and social distancing are cri...
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03/24/2020
Covid-19 Tweeting in English: Gender Differences
At the start of 2020, COVID-19 became the most urgent threat to global p...
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11/08/2019
Does the use of open, non-anonymous peer review in scholarly publishing introduce bias? Evidence from the F1000 post-publication open peer review publishing model
This study examines whether there is any evidence of bias in two areas o...
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10/02/2019
Academic collaboration rates and citation associations vary substantially between countries and fields
Research collaboration is promoted by governments and research funders b...
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09/06/2019
Mendeley Reader Counts for US Computer Science Conference Papers and Journal articles
Although bibliometrics are normally applied to journal articles when use...
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06/05/2019
Large publishing consortia produce higher citation impact research but co-author contributions are hard to evaluate
This paper introduces a simple agglomerative clustering method to identi...
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04/29/2019
Female citation impact superiority 1996-2018 in six out of seven English-speaking nations
Efforts to combat continuing gender inequalities in academia need to be ...
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03/18/2019
Should Citations be Counted Separately from Each Originating Section
Articles are cited for different purposes and differentiating between re...
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03/11/2019
The rhetorical structure of science? A multidisciplinary analysis of article headings
An effective structure helps an article to convey its core message. The ...
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02/23/2019
Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?
Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of juni...
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01/24/2019
Readership Data and Research Impact
Reading academic publications is a key scholarly activity. Scholars acce...
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12/10/2018
Gender and Research Publishing in India: Uniformly high inequality?
Women's access to academic careers has been historically limited by disc...
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10/13/2018
She's Reddit: A source of statistically significant gendered interest information?
Information about gender differences in interests is necessary to disent...
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09/04/2018
Gender differences in research areas and topics: An analysis of publications in 285 fields
Although the gender gap in academia has narrowed, females are underrepre...
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08/15/2018
Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories
Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), ...
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08/09/2018
Do females create higher impact research? Scopus citations and Mendeley readers for articles from five countries
There are known gender imbalances in participation in scientific fields,...
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08/04/2018
Can Microsoft Academic help to assess the citation impact of academic books?
Despite recent evidence that Microsoft Academic is an extensive source o...
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07/23/2018
Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG Score?
While ResearchGate has become the most popular academic social networkin...
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03/20/2018
Dimensions: A Competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science?
Dimensions is a partly free scholarly database launched by Digital Scien...
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02/21/2018
Can Microsoft Academic assess the early citation impact of in-press articles? A multi-discipline exploratory analysis
Many journals post accepted articles online before they are formally pub...
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01/31/2018
Could scientists use Altmetric.com scores to predict longer term citation counts?
Altmetrics from Altmetric.com are widely used by publishers and research...
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11/23/2017
Microsoft Academic Automatic Document Searches: Accuracy for Journal Articles and Suitability for Citation Analysis
Microsoft Academic is a free academic search engine and citation index t...
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11/23/2017
Microsoft Academic: A multidisciplinary comparison of citation counts with Scopus and Mendeley for 29 journals
Microsoft Academic is a free citation index that allows large scale data...
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11/23/2017
The Research Production of Nations and Departments: A Statistical Model for the Share of Publications
Policy makers and managers sometimes assess the share of research produc...
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10/24/2017
Confidence intervals for normalised citation counts: Can they delimit underlying research capability?
Normalised citation counts are routinely used to assess the average impa...
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05/09/2017