altmetrics

Papers in this group tagged with "citations"

1. Scientific publications. Coercive citation in academic publishing.

   Allen W Wilhite, Eric A Fong in Science (New York, N.Y.) (2012)

   Added 2012-03-21 13 readers
2. How the Scientific Community Reacts to Newly Submitted Preprints: Article Downloads, Twitter Mentions, and Citations

   Xin Shuai, Alberto Pepe, Johan Bollen (2012)

   We analyze the online response of the scientific community to the preprint publication of scholarly articles. We employ a cohort of 4,606 scientific articles submitted to the preprint database arXiv.org between October 2010 and April 2011. We study…

   Added 2012-02-15 91 readers
3. Why Does Availability Seem to Drive Down the Quality of Information Goods? « The Scholarly Kitchen

   Added 2011-03-10 4 readers
4. The level of non-citation of articles within a journal as a measure of quality: a comparison to the impact factor

   Andy R Weale, Mick Bailey, Paul A Lear in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2004)

   BACKGROUND: Current methods of measuring the quality of journals assume that citations of articles within journals are normally distributed. Furthermore using journal impact factors to measure the quality of individual articles is flawed if…

   Added 2010-12-07 48 readers
5. How citation distortions create unfounded authority: analysis of a citation network

   Steven A Greenberg in BMJ (2009)

   Objective To understand belief in a specific scientific claim by studying the pattern of citations among papers stating it. Design A complete citation network was constructed from all PubMed indexed English literature papers addressing the belief…

   Added 2010-10-14 134 readers
6. Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: A comparison of download and citation data

   Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Joan A. Smith, Rick Luce in Information Processing & Management (2005)

   We generated networks of journal relationships from citation and download data, and determined journal impact rankings from these networks using a set of social network centrality metrics. The resulting journal impact rankings were compared to the…

   Added 2010-10-14 59 readers
7. Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation?

   Chris Armbruster in Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series (2008)

   The growth and increasing complexity of global science poses a grand challenge to scientists: How to organise the worldwide evaluation of research programmes and peers? For the 21st century we need not just information on science, but also…

   Added 2010-10-14 31 readers