Tag Archives for Research Impact
Factors affecting number of citations: a comprehensive review of the literature
The majority of academic papers are scarcely cited while a few others are highly cited. A large number of studies indicate that there are many factors influencing the number of citations. An actual review is missing that provides a comprehensive … Continue reading
Visibility and citation impact
The number of publications is the first criteria for assessing a researcher output. However, the main measurement for author productivity is the number of citations, and citations are typically related to the paper’s visibility. In this paper, the relationship between … Continue reading
What Can Altmetric.com Tell Us About Policy Citations of Research? An Analysis of Altmetric.com Data for Research Articles from the University of Sheffield
There is a growing interest in using and analyzing altmetric data for quantifying the impact of research, especially societal impact (Bornmann, 2014, Thelwall et al., 2016, Haunschild and Bornmann, 2017). This study therefore aimed to explore the usefulness of Altmetric.com … Continue reading
The concept of research impact pervades contemporary academic discourse – but what does it actually mean?
The concept of research impact pervades contemporary academic discourse. Its prominence can be viewed as part of an increasing demand for academic institutions and individual researchers to demonstrate the practice and policy implications of their work. Yet, despite its widespread … Continue reading
Eugene Garfield’s Scholarly Impact: A Scientometric Review
The concept of citation indexing has become deeply involved in many parts of research itself and the broad environment in which research plays an integral role, ranging from research evaluation, numerous indicators, to an increasingly wider range of scientific disciplines. … Continue reading
RLUK REPORT: Research Libraries & Digital Humanities Tools
RLUK has published a report on The role of Research Libraries in the creation, archiving, curation, and preservation of tools for the Digital Humanities. Read More
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. By Stephen Buranyi In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein … Continue reading
Introducing ‘Rethinking Research’
The first in a series of essays on reproducibility of scientific research. How do we know which scientific results to trust? Research published in peer-reviewed academic journals has typically been considered the gold standard, having been subjected to in-depth scrutiny … Continue reading
The performance of Asian S&T journals in international citation indicators
This research explores the performance of Asian S&T journals based on the outcomes of various citation indicators. Indexed by Journal Citation Reports – Science Citation Index Expanded (JCR-SCIE), journals published in China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan between … Continue reading
Humanities and social sciences ‘undervalued’ by assessment metrics
Universities that specialise in the arts, humanities and social sciences believe that the data captured by governments and rankings to measure performance do not take into account the impact that these institutions have on society. Read More