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ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers?

February 2016
Computers in Human Behavior 55:1001-1006

DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.007

Authors:

Min-Chun Yu

National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology

Yenchun Jim Wu

National Taiwan Normal University

Wadee Alhalabi

King Abdulaziz University

Hao-Yun Kao

Kaohsiung Medical University

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Scientific communication is an integral part of any scientific activity, which determines the forms of mutual integration of scientific information, and, consequently, the speed and effectiveness of knowledge production. Despite the high degree of autonomy, the system of scientific communication is significantly influenced by technological innovations, which is enhanced by the ongoing search for ways to optimize this type of interaction and tools to overcome the information crisis that has been going on for more than half a century. Today, one of the main factors in the transformation of scientific communication is network and cloud technologies, which determine the process of digitalization of formal and informal interaction between researchers. One of the appearances of this process is academic social network sites, which we define as a type of specialized, professional Internet platforms built in accordance with the Web 2.0 architecture, allowing registered users to have their own page, download and upload various data, form connections with other users, as well as exchange public or private messages and files, and is designed to provide scientific communication on the Internet. The presence in academic social networks has become an important component of the researchers’ professional identity and, as a result, interaction with this type of digital platforms has firmly entered the structure of networking in the science-intensive sector of the economy. Over the 13 years that have passed since its launch, the largest academic social network ResearchGate, being a driver of the digitalization of scientific communication, has united more than 20 million researchers from 193 countries of the world and continues to demonstrate high growth dynamics of key indicators. Academic social networks act simultaneously as a means and environment of communication, a tool for ensuring visibility and building the scientific reputation of researchers. Also, this type of digital platforms, built in the logic of Open Science, can be used as a part of administrative measures to ensure open access - a backbone vector for the transformation of science in the first quarter of the 21st century. Academic social networks are the source of "digital traces" - data arrays, which, due to the high rate of accumulation, diversity and completeness, have an extremely high heuristic potential in the framework of scientific communication studies, showing hitherto unrecorded connections of the "invisible college". In fact, new social realities not only open up new possibilities, but also allow us to reconsider the application of classical methods, in particular the non-reactive strategy of social research In addition to digital traces, academic social networks also generate alternative scientific communication metrics – the so-called “web metrics” or “altmetrics”. These indicators can potentially be applied in the development and provision of new mechanisms for the administration of science in the context of neoliberal management principles. Unfortunately, to date, this type of digital platforms rarely comes to the attention of researchers, as a result of which we can talk about the significant unrealized heuristic potential of such social network platforms.

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Purpose: The academic social networking sites are considered as the most significant tools for sharing and analyzing scientific work for increasing the visibility of research. These social networking has emerged as the significant area to undertake various activities at different level. The prime objectives of the present study are to investigate the various activities among Universities faculties in the school of Physical Sciences in both the universities such as Tezpur University and Mizoram University at ResearchGate platform. Methodology: the method which is being applied for the purpose of the study include altmetrics approaches to analysis the activities of the faculties in both the universities. The data were collected through ResearchGate Database and respective university website. All the collected data were examined using MS Excel and SPSS Package for systemic analysis of the study.

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Understanding Scholar Social Networks: Taking SCHOLAT as an Example

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Jan 2022

Scholar social networks are composed of scholars and social connections among them. Studying such social networks can help promote academic exchanges and cooperation, and predict future trends in research. In this paper, we analyze SCHOLAT, a representative scholar social network in China, from three perspectives. First, we explore SCH-OLAT’s social graph, and we find this graph has a smaller average shortest-path length and a higher clustering coefficient than other social networks, for example, the collaboration network of Google Scholar and the Flickr social network. Moreover, we leverage the structural hole theory to identify important users on SCHOLAT. By comparing the top-500 structural hole spanners with 500 randomly selected users, we have found that the former have the higher values of several graph-based metrics, and they also connect more communities. Finally, we also undertake user group-based analysis, and we discover that the users belonging to Guangdong province, and the users from the top universities in China are well-connected and occupy important positions in the network. KeywordsSCHOLAT social networkSocial graph analysisStructural hole theoryUser group-based analysis

АКАДЕМИЧЕСКИЕ СОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ СЕТИ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ЦИФРОВОЙ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ НАУЧНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ

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Mar 2022

Georgiy Nikolaenko

Научная коммуникация – неотъемлемая часть научной деятельности, определяющая формы взаимоинтеграции научной информации, а следовательно, скорость и результативность производства знаний. Несмотря на высокую степень автономности, система научной коммуникации существенно подвержена влиянию технологических инноваций извне, что усиливается за счет непрекращающегося поиска путей оптимизации этого типа взаимодействия и инструментов преодоления информационного кризиса, продолжающегося уже более полувека. На сегодняшний день одним из основных факторов трансформации научной коммуникации становятся сетевые и облачные технологии, детерминирующие процесс цифровизации формальных и неформальных форм взаимодействия исследователей. Одним из проявлений этого процесса являются академические социальные сети, которые мы определяем как тип специализированных, профессиональных интернет-платформ, выстроенных в соответствии с архитектурой Web 2.0, позволяющей зарегистрированным пользователям иметь свою собственную страницу, скачивать и загружать различные материалы, формировать связи с другими пользователями, а также обмениваться публичными или же личными сообщениями и файлами и призванной обеспечивать научную коммуникацию в интернете. Присутствие в академических социальных сетях стало важной составляющей профессиональной идентичности исследователей и, как следствие, взаимодействие с этим типом цифровых платформ прочно вошло в структуру сетевой работы в наукоемком секторе экономики. За 13 лет, прошедших с момента запуска, крупнейшая академическая социальная сеть ResearchGate, являясь драйвером цифровизации научной коммуникации, объединила более 20 млн исследователей из 193 государств мира и продолжает демонстрировать высокую динамику роста основных показателей. Академические социальные сети выступают в качестве средства и среды коммуникации, инструмента обеспечения заметности и построения научной репутации исследователей. Также этот тип цифровых платформ, выстроенный в логике Открытой науки, может быть задействован в рамках административных мер по обеспечению открытого доступа – системообразующего вектора трансформации науки первой четверти XXI века. Академические социальные сети являются источником «цифровых следов» – массивов данных, которые вследствие высокой скорости накопления, разнообразия и полноты, обладают чрезвычайно высоким эвристическим потенциалом в рамках исследований научной коммуникации, проявляя до настоящего момента не фиксируемые связи «невидимого колледжа». Фактически, новые социальные реалии не только открывают новые возможности, но и позволяют пересмотреть применение классических методов, в частности нереактивной стратегии социального исследования. Помимо «цифровых следов», академические социальные сети также генерируют альтернативные метрики научной коммуникации – так называемые «вебметрики» или «альтметрики». Эти показатели потенциально могут быть применены при разработке и для обеспечения новых механизмов администрирования науки в условиях неолиберальных принципов управления. К сожалению, на сегодняшний день, этот тип цифровых платформ попадает в поле внимания исследователей весьма редко, вследствие чего мы можем говорить о существенном нереализованном эвристическом потенциале социальных исследований платформ данного типа.

Author-level altmetrics for the evaluation of Chinese scholars

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Jan 2022

Altmetrics has been widely recognized in the evaluation of articles, books, and journals. However, only a few of scholars have focused on author-level metrics which limits the wide application of altmetrics. Moreover, most of the commonly used altmetrics indicators are selected from international platforms, such as Google + , Facebook, and Twitter, which are not widely available to Chinese scholars. It will be biased if these indicators are directly used to evaluate Chinese scholars. This paper aims to construct an indicator system suitable for the evaluation of Chinese scholars based on altmetrics. We investigate representative platforms which are popular in China and similar with the frequently used altmetrics platforms and extract measurements from them. The principal component analysis is applied to reduce the multicollinearity among the selected indicators and objectively calculate their weights in the altmetrics system. Furthermore, the receiver operating characteristic curve is adopted to give evidence that the proposed altmetrics system is non-specific to the Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences, and the correlation analysis between the altmetrics scores and the traditional bibliometric indicators is implemented to verify its applicability to evaluate Chinese scholars.

Q&A participation and behavioral patterns on academic social networking sites: a comparative study of academic, corporate and government institutions on ResearchGate

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Jan 2022

Purpose This paper aims to explore question and answer (Q&A) participation and behavioral patterns on academic social networking sites (ASNSs) from the perspective of multiple subjects such as academic, corporate and government institutions. Design/methodology/approach Focused on the Q&A service of ASNSs, this study chooses ResearchGate (RG) as the target ASNS and collects a large-scale data set from it, involving a sample of users and a Q&A sample about academic, corporate and government institutions. First, it studies the law of Q&A participation and the distribution of the type of user according to the sample of users. Second, it compares question-asking behavior and question-answering behavior stimulated by questions among the three types of institutions based on the Q&A sample. Finally, it discusses the Q&A participation and behavioral patterns of the three types of institutions in academic Q&A exchanges with full consideration of institutional attributes, and provides some suggestions for institutions and ASNSs. Findings The results show that these three types of institutions generally have a low level of participation in the Q&A service of RG, and the numbers of questions and answers proposed by institutional users conform to the power-law distribution. There are differences in Q&A participation and Q&A behavioral patterns among academic, corporate and government institutions. Government and academic institutions have more users participating in the Q&A service and their users are more willing to ask questions, while corporate institutions have fewer users who participate in the Q&A service and their users are inclined to provide answers. Questions from corporate institutions attract much more attention than those from the other two types of institutions. Originality/value This study reveals and compares the Q&A participation and the behavioral patterns of the three types of institutions in academic Q&A, thus deepening the understanding of the attributes of institutions in the academic information exchange context. In practice, the results can help guide different institutions to use the Q&A service of ASNSs more effectively and help ASNSs to better optimize their Q&A service.

Exploring the Role of Academic Social Networking Sites Amongst LIS Professionals: A Meta-Narrative Review

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Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) has revolutionized the concept of knowledge sharing and publication pattern in academia. It offers a new paradigm to interrelate research scientists globally, influencing research communities' structure and crescendos (dynamics). This changing trend has attracted considerable attention in the research domain and the consequent impact on library & information science professionals. Due to the high operationalizing ability of these networking sites, it provides online services of collaboration and knowledge sharing. The present study reviewed 23 studies from the past that highlights the methodologies, usage pattern of ASNs, impact on professionals, different categories of services, and issues related to academics and social networking in a researcher's life. This study has implemented the ICA framework, a way forward to conduct meta-analysis studies in LIS, using the two most prominent citation and indexing databases, i.e., 'Scopus' and 'Web of Science'. Moreover, this systematic review formulated four main research categories: Usage, Impact, Services, and Issues related to the ASNS. On further analysis of these four main research categories, eleven sub-categories evolved across four main categories. Finally, at the end of the study, specific suggestions and recommendations are provided for future studies.

The 'Researchgate' Score On Maharashtra University an Analysis

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Datta Solanke

The article examines the research contributions of all Non Agriculture University of Maharashtra State. The data for the study have been extracted from the website of Research Gate.net (www.researchgate.net) for this study during July 2021. It was found that 11 Non Agriculture University in Maharashtra state Members in Non Agriculture Universities have been contributed the research contributions made by Research Gate. Further the data were analyzed to find out the Research Gate RG Scores, Members and Publications of Non Agriculture University Maharashtra State by Department wise, Members, Publications, Research Gate (RG) Scores, and Top of departments along with their members and various types of documents by top ten departments with publications and authors of Non Agriculture University

The Research of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune on 'Researchgate' Score : An Analysis

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The Research Productivity at the Researchgate Score on Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) Mumbai-An Analysis

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The article examines the research contributions of Central Institute of fisheries education Mumbai. The data for the study have been extracted from the website of Research Gate.net (www.researchgate.net) for this study during October 2020. It was ICAR-CIFE india’s first fisheries University Mumbai of India have been contributed the research contributions made by Research Gate. Further the data were analyzed to find out the Research Gate RG Scores, Members and Publications of CIFE Mumbai wise, Members, Publications, Research Gate (RG) Scores, and Top of departments along with their members and various types of documents by top ten departments with publications and authors of IISER.

Information and data ecologies

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Jan 2022

Tibor Koltay

This chapter addresses questions related to the complex relationships between information, data, and human beings, frequently treated as the foundation of information and data ecologies. We focus on issues that have varied interfaces with literacies, but are not literacies in the proper sense of the word. The first part of this chapter focuses on openness, reproducibility, credibility, and sharing of digital data. Attention is given to research data’s Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse. There is also a short discussion of the relationship between research data and copyright. In the second part, data journals and data papers are targeted, and attention is paid to the problems of measuring and evaluating research data. The third part touches on varied issues, such as possible coauthorships between librarians and researchers, research data management, reputation management, information and data overload, posttruth phenomena and the influence of posttruth, as well as the deluge of publications related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Association Between Professional Accounts on Social Networks Twitter and ResearchGate and the Number of Scientific Publications and Citations Among Anesthesia Researchers: Observational Study

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Oct 2021
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Background: Social networks are now essential tools for promoting research and researchers. However, there is no study investigating the link between presence or not on professional social networks and scientific publication or citation for a given researcher. Objective: The objective of this study was to study the link between professional presence on social networks and scientific publications/citations among anesthesia researchers. Methods: We included all the French full professors and associate professors of anesthesia. We analyzed their presence on the social networks Twitter (professional account with ≥1 tweet over the 6 previous months) and ResearchGate. We extracted their bibliometric parameters for the 2016-2020 period via the Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics) database in the Science Citation Index-Expanded index. Results: A total of 162 researchers were analyzed; 42 (25.9%) had an active Twitter account and 110 (67.9%) a ResearchGate account. There was no difference between associate professors and full professors regarding active presence on Twitter (8/23 [35%] vs. 34/139 [24.5%], respectively; P=.31) or ResearchGate (15/23 [65%] vs. 95/139 [68.3%], respectively; P=.81). Researchers with an active Twitter account (median [IQR]) had more scientific publications (45 [28-61] vs. 26 [12-41]; P<.001), a higher h-index (12 [8-16] vs. 8 [5-11]; P<.001), a higher number of citations per publication (12.54 [9.65-21.8] vs. 10.63 [5.67-16.10]; P=.01), and a higher number of citations (563 [321-896] vs. 263 [105-484]; P<.001). Researchers with a ResearchGate account (median [IQR]) had more scientific publications (33 [17-47] vs. 26 [9-43]; P=.03) and a higher h-index (9 [6-13] vs. 8 [3-11]; P=.03). There was no difference between researchers with a ResearchGate account and those without it concerning the number of citations per publication and overall number of citations. In multivariate analysis including sex, academic status, and presence on social networks, the presence on Twitter was associated with the number of publications (β=20.2; P<.001), the number of citations (β=494.5; P<.001), and the h-index (β=4.5; P<.001). Conclusions: Among French anesthesia researchers, an active presence on Twitter is associated with higher scientific publication and citations.

Akademisyenlerin ResearchGate ve Google Scholar Citations Kullanımları: Türkiye'deki Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Bölümleri Üzerine Bir İnceleme / Academics' Use of ResearchGate and Google Scholar Citations: A Study on the Information and Records Management Departments in Turkey

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Akademik sosyal ağlar bilimsel iletişim sürecinde kendine yer bulan, akademik çalışmaların ve yayınların açık erişim ilkesi doğrultusunda paylaşılmasına ve görünürlüğünün artırılmasına olanak sağlayan, sosyal ağ yapıları ile benzer özellikler taşıyan web siteleridir. 2008 yılında ortaya çıkmaya başlayan akademik sosyal ağlar, araştırmacılar ve akademisyenler tarafından yaygın olarak kullanılmaktadır. Araştırmalar sonucunda dünyada yaygın olarak kullanıldığı tespit edilen akademik sosyal ağlardan ResearchGate ve akademik profil oluşturmaya izin veren bir platform olan Google Scholar Citations hakkında ayrıntılı bilgilere yer verilen bu çalışmada, Türkiye'deki Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi alanında çalışan 128 akademisyenin bu ağlardaki profil bilgileri incelenmiştir. Buna göre akademisyenlerin %62,5'inin (n=80) ResearchGate profili ve %72,65'inin (n=93) Google Scholar Citations profili bulunmaktadır. Bu iki ağın ortak göstergeleri olan yayın ve atıf sayısı ile h-indeks değerleri karşılaştırılmıştır. ResearchGate profili bulunan akademisyenlerin ResearchGate'e toplam 1.658 yayın yükledikleri, Google Scholar Citations'a ise 4.071 yayın ekledikleri tespit edilmiştir. Akademisyenlerin ResearchGate'teki yayınlarının toplam atıf sayısı 6.580, Google Scholar Citations'ta ise 22.882'dir. Yayın başına düşen atıf sayısı ResearchGate'te 3,96 iken Google Scholar Citations'ta 5,62'dir. ResearchGate'te akademisyenlerin h-indeks ortalaması 2,83 ve Google Scholar Citations'ta 6,02'dir. ResearchGate atıfları ve Google Scholar Citations atıfları ile her iki platformdaki h-indeks değerleri arasında olumlu yönde anlamlı yüksek düzeyde bir korelasyon tespit edilmiştir. Kapsama alınan platformların Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi bölümleri akademisyenlerince kullanımlarında üniversitelerine, unvanlarına ve cinsiyetlerine göre farklılıklar olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Abstract Academic social networking sites are websites that have a place in the scholarly communication process, allow sharing and increasing the visibility of academic studies and publications in line with the open access principle, and have similar features with social network structures. Academic social networking sites, which started to emerge in 2008, are widely used by researchers and academics. This study includes detailed information about ResearchGate, one of the academic social networks found to be widely used in the world as a result of the research, and Google Scholar Citations, a platform that allows academic profile creation. In this study, the profile information of 128 academicians working in the field of Information and Records Management in Turkey was also examined in these networks. In the research, ResearchGate and Google Scholar Citations profile information of 128 academicians were examined. Accordingly, 62.5% (n = 80) of the academicians have a ResearchGate profile and 72.65% (n = 93) have a Google Scholar Citations profile. The common indicators of these two networks,

Akademisyenlerin ResearchGate ve Google Scholar Citations Kullanımları Üzerine Bir İnceleme: Bilgi ve Belge Yönetimi Bölümü Örneği

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The Research Productivity Deemed universities in Maharashtra State on 'Researchgate' score An Analysis

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Vilas ashokrao Kale

The article examines the research contributions of all Deemed University of Maharashtra State. The data for the study have been extracted from the website of Research Gate.net (www.researchgate.net) for this study during July 2021. It was found that 22 Deemed University of Maharashtra state Members in Deemed University have been contributed the research contributions made by Research Gate. Further the data were analyzed to find out the Research Gate RG Scores, Members and Publications of Deemed University of Maharashtra State by Department wise, Members, Publications, Research Gate (RG) Scores, and Top of departments along with their members and various types of documents by top ten departments with publications and authors of Deemed University. Keywords- Research Gate, RG Score

Akademisyenlerin Akademik Sosyal Ağlara Yönelik Tutumları: Ankara Üniversitesi Örneği Academicians' Attitudes towards Academic Social Networking Sites: The Case of Ankara University

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Bilimsel iletişimin değişen dinamikleri, genel anlamda araştırmacıların özelde akademisyenlerin araştırma yapma, araştırma sonuçlarını yayımlama ve paylaşma gibi bilimsel iletişim süreçlerini değiştirmiştir. Günümüzde akademisyenler görünürlüklerini ve etkinliklerini artırmak, yayınlarını duyurmak ve paylaşmak için sosyal ağları ve akademik sosyal ağları kullanmaktadırlar. Sosyal bir ağa, akademik içeriğin ve akademik faaliyetlerin eklenmesi ile ortaya çıkan akademik sosyal ağlar; araştırmacılara ve akademisyenlere çeşitli yararlar sağlamaktadır. Amaç: Çalışmada, Ankara Üniversitesi akademisyenlerinin akademik sosyal ağlara ilişkin tutumlarını ve akademik sosyal ağlardan ne ölçüde yararlandıklarını ortaya çıkarmak amaçlanmıştır. Yöntem: Nicel bir araştırmaya örnek olan bu çalışmada, tarama (survey) tekniğinden yararlanılarak veriler toplanmıştır. Bulgular: 560 akademisyenin katıldığı anket sonucunda elde edilen bulgulara göre akademisyenlerin %82,7’sinin (463 kişi) akademik sosyal ağları kullandığı belirlenmiştir. En çok tercih edilen akademik sosyal ağların Google Scholar, ResearchGate ve Academia.edu olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Akademisyenler, akademik sosyal ağları en çok alanlarıyla ilgili yayınları ve yenilikleri takip etmek ve akademik çalışmaları paylaşmak için kullanmaktadırlar. Akademisyenlerin akademik sosyal ağ kullanım durumlarının cinsiyet ve unvan değişkenlerine göre büyük ölçüde benzerlik gösterdiği fakat fakültelerine ve yaş gruplarına göre anlamlı düzeyde farklılaştığı tespit edilmiştir. Sonuç: Ankara Üniversitesi akademisyenlerinin çoğunluğunun akademik sosyal ağları kullandığı ve dolayısıyla akademisyenlerin akademik sosyal ağlar konusunda farkındalığının olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Ancak akademisyenler düzenli kullanım sağlamada, geri bildirimleri takip etmede ve yayın isteklerini karşılamada zorlanmaktadırlar. Özgünlük: Uluslararası literatürde akademik sosyal ağlar ve yararlarının araştırıldığı pek çok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Fakat yerel literatür incelendiğinde akademik sosyal ağları ele alan sınırlı sayıda çalışma olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu açıdan yapılan araştırma, özgün ve yerel literatürde konuyu tartışması açısından önemli bir çalışmadır.

Akademisyenlerin Akademik Sosyal Ağlara Yönelik Tutumları: Ankara Üniversitesi Örneği

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The'Researchgate' Score of University of Mumbai : An Analysis

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Rahul Kalyanrao Deshmukh

The article examines the research contributions of University of Mumbai, Mumbai in Maharashtra. The data for the study have been extracted from the website of Research Gate.net (www.researchgate.net) for this study during April 2021. It was found that 2437 Members in Mumbai Universities have been contributed the research contributions made by Research Gate. Further the data were analyzed to find out the Research Gate RG Scores, Members and Publications of University Mumbai by Department wise, Members, Publications, Research Gate (RG) Scores, and Top of departments along with their members and various types of documents by top ten departments with publications and authors of University of Mumbai.

BİLİMSEL İLETİŞİMDE AKADEMİSYENLERİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİNDE AKADEMİK SOSYAL AĞLARIN VE ALTMETRİK GÖSTERGELERİN KULLANIMI: ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ ÖRNEĞİ

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Bilimsel iletişimde akademisyenlerin görünürlük ve etkinliğinin değerlendirilmesi söz konusu olduğunda, mevcut değerlendirme ölçütlerine (geleneksel metrikler) günümüzde alternatif olarak ortaya çıkan ve sosyal etkinin boyutlarının ölçülmesini sağlayan altmetri (yeni nesil metrikler) alanı eşlik etmeye başlamıştır. Bu bağlamda çalışmanın konusunu, altmetri alanı ile altmetrik göstergeleri kullanan, bilimsel iletişime yeni bir boyut kazandıran akademik sosyal ağlar oluşturmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, altmetri ve altmetrik göstergeler açıklanmış, geleneksel metrikler ile altmetri ilişkisinin ortaya çıkarılması için bu göstergelerin karşılaştırılması yapılmıştır. Bu doğrultuda, Akademik Sosyal Ağ (ASA)'ların incelendiği çalışmada, bu ağların özellikleri ve yararları betimlenerek Ankara Üniversitesi (AÜ) akademisyenlerinin ASA kullanım düzeyleri, hangi ASA'ları kullanmakta oldukları ve bu ağları hangi amaçlar için kullandıkları gibi durumların tespit edilmesi hedeflenmiştir. Bu amaçlar doğrultusunda; araştırmada ilk olarak AÜ akademisyenlerinin ASA'ları kullanma düzeylerini belirlemek ve bu konuda farkındalık yaratmak için anket tekniğinden yararlanılmıştır. Anket uygulamasında; araştırma evrenini 3.164 akademisyen oluşturmaktadır. Asgari örneklem büyüklüğü ise 362 katılımcı olarak hesaplanmıştır. Anketi 560 akademisyen yanıtlamış olup bu örneklem büyüklüğünün araştırmanın evrenini oldukça yüksek düzeyde temsil ettiği ifade edilebilir. Uygulanan ankete ek olarak akademisyenlerin, ASA'lardan biri olan ResearchGate'i (RG) kullanım durumları ve platformun sunduğu hizmetleri kullanma oranları incelenmiştir. Son olarak RG atıf göstergesi ile altmetrik göstergelerinin korelasyon analizleri ve Scopus veri tabanından AÜ dokümanlarına ilişkin elde edilen atıflar ile altmetrik göstergeler arasında çeşitli korelasyon çalışmaları yapılmıştır. Uygulanan anket sonucunda AÜ akademisyenlerinin ASA'lara ilişkin tespit edilen tutumları aşağıda sunulmuştur: • AÜ akademisyenlerinin büyük çoğunluğunun ASA'ları kullandığı ve sırasıyla Google Scholar, RG ve Academia.edu ASA'larının en fazla oranda kullanıldığı tespit edilmiştir. • Akademisyenlerin ASA'ları en çok "Alanlarıyla ilgili yayınları takip etmek, Alanla ilgili yenilikleri takip etmek ve Akademik çalışmaları paylaşmak" amaçları için kullandıkları görülmektedir. • AÜ akademisyenleri altmetrik göstergelerden okunma sayısı ve indirilme sayılarını önemli olarak gördüklerini belirtmektedirler. Ancak geleneksel göstergelerden atıf sayıları akademisyenler için önem derecesi en yüksek gösterge olarak tespit edilmiştir. • Akademisyenlerin ASA'ları kullanmama nedenlerinin başında ise sırasıyla "ASA'lar hakkında bilgim yok ve ASA'ları kullanmam için bir zorunluluk bulunmuyor" nedenleri gelmektedir. • Akademisyenlerin ASA kullanım tercihleri unvanları bakımından büyük ölçüde benzerlik göstermektedir. ASA kullanımlarında yaşlara göre anlamlı fark bulunurken unvanlara göre bulunmamaktadır. • Akademisyenlerin ASA'ları kullanım durumlarının fakültelerine göre anlamlı düzeyde farklılaştığı tespit edilmiştir. ASA'ların kullanımına ilişkin ortaya çıkarılan bu sonuçlar ile "Görünürlük ve etkinin arttırılması ve değerlendirilmesinde ASA'lar incelendiğinde, AÜ akademisyenleri, çalışma alanlarına (sosyal ve beşeri bilimler, temel bilimler vb. alanlarda) göre ASA'ların kullanımı konusunda farklı davranışlara sahiptirler." şeklinde belirlenen temel hipotezlerden biri doğrulanmıştır. RG platformunda gerçekleştirilen analizlerde; sayısal/pozitif bilimler araştırmacılarının (Tıp, Mühendislik, Fen ve Veteriner Fakülteleri ve diğerleri) RG'de AÜ'yü daha fazla temsil ettiği ve AÜ üyelerinin %40'ının RG'yi aktif olarak kullanmadığı, sadece profil oluşturduğu ortaya çıkarılmıştır. RG göstergeleri üzerinden gerçekleştirilen korelasyon analizleri sonuçlarına göre atıf sayısı ile okunma sayısı (r = 0,482, p<0,01), Toplam Araştırma İlgi puanı (r = 0,950, p<0,01), takipçi sayısı (r = 0,371, p<0,01), yüklenen doküman sayısı (r = 0,492, p<0,01) ve RG Puanı (r = 0,438, p<0,01) arasında olumlu yönde anlamlı korelasyon olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Scopus göstergeleri (Scopus atıfları ve PlumX metrikleri) üzerinden yapılan korelasyon analizi sonuçlarına göre, atıf sayısı ile Mendeley okuyucu sayısı (rho = 0,609, p<0,01), tam metin görüntülenme sayısı (rho = 0,090, p<0,01) ve Tweet sayısı (rho = 0,262, p<0,01) arasında olumlu yönde anlamlı korelasyon olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Böylelikle her iki platformda da atıf göstergesi ile altmetrik göstergeler arasında olumlu ve anlamlı ilişkiler olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu bağlamda, "ASA'lar ve diğer iletişim ortamlarının gelişmesiyle beraber, bilimsel iletişimde akademisyenlerin ve bilimsel çıktılarının görünürlüğünün ve etkisinin belirlenmesinde altmetri olarak adlandırılan ve sosyal etkiyi ölçen araç ve yöntemler geleneksel metrikleri tamamlayıcı bir nitelik taşımaktadır." şeklinde oluşturulan araştırmanın temel hipotezlerinden ikincisi de doğrulanmıştır. İlgili literatür ve elde edilen bulgulara dayalı olarak, çalışma kapsamında ulusal araştırma ağını tek bir platformda oluşturmaya ve geliştirmeye yönelik TR Dizin Ulusal Araştırma Çevresi Modeli (TR Akademi) tasarlanmıştır. Tasarlanan modelde ULAKBİM tarafından oluşturulan TR Dizin'in altmetrik verileri sistemine entegre etmesi ve ASA özelliklerini barındırması yönünde çeşitli öneriler sunulmaktadır.

Explored publication pattern of the top twenty NIRF-2020 ranked Indian institutions: An evaluative study

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Institutions ranking are getting more attention nowadays, as it shows institutions' status globally and influences students' decisions in selecting Institutions for admissions. Open access publications in scholarly research communication are important, but its significance in institutions' ranking is yet to explore. In this study, the authors tried to demonstrate and compare open access and commercial publication documents of the top twenty institutions (overall category) as per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2020 report. According to NIRF-2020, maintaining their last year's positions, IIT Madras and IISc Bangalore bagged the first two ranks, followed by IIT Delhi on the third position among educational institutions with the score of 85.31, 84.18, and 81.33, respectively. In the study, it came out that in comparison to commercial publications open access publication perform better on the parameters of international collaboration, industry collaboration, the article in Q1 journals, citation impact, category normalized Citation Impact and Percentage of the document cited. Having the opinion that ranking provides an effective way of inspiring universities to continue, and hopefully increase, their commitment to open scholarship, this paper propose a parameter for open access publication to evaluate the ranking. This study may help ranking agencies evaluate approaches or a new policy for parameters weighted and researchers interested in research in this field.

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Publication Quality Following Short Summer Cancer Research Internships

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Publications of research conducted during short-term research education training programs serve as an outcome measure for students’ successes and a program’s value. We compared the impact of cancer publications from research conducted during a short-term cancer research education training program, to publications by program participants in the years following completion of the training program and earning an academic or professional degree. Bibliometrics and altmetrics from NIH, ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Scopus® that measure publication impact were collected on cancer publications by student interns in the CaRES (Cancer Research Experiences for Students) R25 program from 1999 to 2017; and on cancer publications in subsequent years by program alumni (students who completed CaRES). Publication characteristics and impact measures were described and compared. Of 558 publications, 206 (37%) were related to CaRES internship projects and 352 (63%) related to any cancer research in which program alumni engaged following their internships. CaRES project publications were cited more frequently and held a higher research interest score than later cancer publications by CaRES alumni but appeared in journals having lower impact factors (p < 0.05). A higher proportion of alumni were first authors of their publications as compared to first authorship by interns (p = 0.02). Research conducted during short-term cancer research programs can be scientifically meaningful and of comparable quality to publications by program alumni who engage in cancer research careers.

Découverte et enrichissement de connaissances à partir de textes pour la recherche d'experts

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Stella Zevio

Expert finding consists in the identification of a set of individuals who are considered to be experts in a particular topic. This is an essential problem in the academic world. Indeed, it is constantly necessary to identify suitable researchers when setting up reading or evaluation committees for research projects, for example. Indeed, it is particularly useful to automatically identify experts on a specific field from the scientific literature. We suggest an approach for knowledge discovery and enrichment based on a semantic annotation of scientific articles, on their representation in the form of scientific collaboration networks and their exploration using a graph abstraction method. This method makes it possible to focus on dense areas of networks and to discover experts and their associated expertise using connectivity constraints. The latter make it possible to take into account a validation by peers, materialized by the density of scientific collaboration relations that individuals maintain with each other. We test our approach on a corpus of scientific publications, propose an original method for evaluating our results and compare our performance to expert research methods implemented in the LT ExpertFinder evaluation framework. We obtain better performance than the state of the art and discover that the most decisive indicators of expertise are the writing of highly cited articles but also the ability to cite the appropriate scientific literature.

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Networks of reader and country status: An analysis of Mendeley reader statistics

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The number of papers published in journals indexed by the Web of Science core collection is steadily increasing. In recent years, nearly two million new papers were published each year; somewhat more than one million papers when primary research articles are considered only. Sophisticated and compact bibliometric methods have to be applied in order to obtain an overview. One popular method is a network-based analysis. In this study, we analyze Mendeley readership data of a set of 1,133,224 articles and 64,960 reviews with publication year 2012 to generate three networks: (1) The network based on disciplinary affiliations points out similarities of and differences in readerships of papers. (2) The status group network shows which status groups (e.g. students, lecturers, or professors) commonly read and bookmark papers. (3) The country network focusses on global readership patterns: It visualizes similar and different reading patterns of papers at the country level. With these networks we explore the usefulness of readership data for networking.

Statistical relationships between journal use and research output at academic institutions in South Korea

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In this study, we analysed the statistical association between e-journal use and research output at the institution level in South Korea by performing comparative and diachronic analyses, as well as the analysis by field. The datasets were compiled from four different sources: national reports on research output indicators in science fields, two statistics databases on higher education institutions open to the public, and e-journal usage statistics generated by 47 major publishers. Due to the different data sources utilized, a considerable number of missing values appeared in our datasets and various mapping issues required corrections prior to the analysis. Two techniques for handling missing data were applied and the impact of each technique was discussed. In order to compile the institutional data by field, journals were first mapped, and then the statistics were summarized according to subject field. We observed that e-journal use exhibited stronger correlations with the number of publications and the times cited, in contrast to the number of undergraduates, graduates, faculty members and the amount of research funds, and this was the case regardless of the NA handling method or author type. The difference between the maximum correlation for the amount of external research funding with two average indicators and that of the correlation for e-journal use were not significant. Statistically, the accountability of e-journal use for the average times cited per article and the average JIF was quite similar with external research funds. It was found that the number of e-journal articles used had a strong positive correlation (Pearson’s correlation coefficients of r[0.9, p\0.05) with the number of articles published in SCI(E) journals and the times cited regardless of the author type, NA handling method or time period. We also observed that the top-five institutions in South Korea, with respect to the number of publications in SCI(E) journals, were generally across a balanced range of academic activities, while producing significant research output and using published material. Finally, we confirmed that the association of e-journal use with the two quantitative research indicators is strongly positive, even for the analyses by field, with the exception of the Arts and Humanities.

How is an academic social site populated? A demographic study of Google Scholar Citations population

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Jose Luis Ortega

This paper intends to describe the population evolution of a scientific information web service during 2011-2012. Quarterly samples from December 2011 to December 2012 were extracted from Google Scholar Citations to analyse the number of members, distribution of their bibliometric indicators, positions, institutional and country affiliations and the labels to describe their scientific activity. Results show that most of the users are young researchers, with a starting scientific career and mainly from disciplines related to information sciences and technologies. Another important result is that this service is settled by waves emanating from specific institutions and countries. This work concludes that this academic social network presents some biases in the population distribution that does not make it representative of the real scientific population.

Altmetrics for Country-Level Research Assessment

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Changes are occurring in scholarly communication and the geogra-phy of science. Policymakers and research funding agencies are looking for ways to measure the comprehensive impact of research and benefit from the re-search experiences of other nations. Recently, altmetrics have been used to measure broader impact of research activities. In this paper, we study altmetrics based on the country-level impact and find that altmetrics can support research evaluation for all countries studied. We compare altmetrics with several tradi-tional metrics and find significant relationships between country-level alt-metrics and the number of publications, citations, h-index, and gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD). We also find a significant yearly increase in the number of articles published between 2010 and 2014 that received altmetrics.

Relationship between altmetric and bibliometric indicators across academic social sites: The case of CSIC's members

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Jose Luis Ortega

This study explores the connections between social and usage metrics (altmetrics) and bibliometric indicators at the author level. It studies to what extent these indicators, gained from academic sites, can provide a proxy for research impact. Close to 10,000 author profiles belonging to the Spanish National Research Council were extracted from the principal scholarly social sites: ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley and academic search engines: Microsoft Academic Search and Google Scholar Citations. Results describe little overlapping between sites because most of the researchers only manage one profile (72%). Correlations point out that there is scant relationship between altmetric and bibliometric indicators at author level. This is due to the almetric ones are site-dependent, while the bibliometric ones are more stable across web sites. It is concluded that altmetrics could reflect an alternative dimension of the research performance, close, perhaps, to science popularization and networking abilities, but far from citation impact.

From bibliometrics to altmetrics: A changing scholarly landscape

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Do highly cited researchers successfully use the Social Web?

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Academics can now use the web and the social websites to disseminate scholarly information in a variety of different ways. Although some scholars have taken advantage of these new online opportunities, it is not clear how widespread their uptake is or how much impact they can have. This study assesses the extent to which successful scientists have social web presences, focusing on one influential group: highly cited researchers working at European institutions. It also assesses the impact of these presences. We manually and systematically identified if the European highly cited researchers had profiles in Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, Mendeley, Academia and LinkedIn or any content in SlideShare. We then used URL mentions and altmetric indicators to assess the impact of the web presences found. Although most of the scientists had an institutional website of some kind, few had created a profile in any social website investigated, and LinkedIn - the only non-academic site in the list - was the most popular. Scientists having one kind of social web profile were more likely to have another in many cases, especially in the life sciences and engineering. In most cases it was possible to estimate the relative impact of the profiles using a readily available statistic and there were disciplinary differences in the impact of the different kinds of profiles. Most social web profiles had some evidence of uptake, if not impact; nevertheless, the value of the indicators used is unclear.

ResearchGate: Disseminating, Communicating, and Measuring Scholarship?

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ResearchGate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their publications and interact with each other. Like Academia.edu, it provides a new way for scholars to disseminate their publications and hence potentially changes the dynamics of informal scholarly communication. This article assesses whether ResearchGate usage and publication data broadly reflect existing academic hierarchies and whether individual countries are set to benefit or lose out from the site. The results show that rankings based on ResearchGate statistics correlate moderately well with other rankings of academic institutions, suggesting that ResearchGate use broadly reflects traditional academic capital. Moreover, while Brazil, India and some other countries seem to be disproportionately taking advantage of ResearchGate, academics in China, South Korea and Russia may be missing opportunities to use ResearchGate to maximise the academic impact of their publications.

Validating Online Reference Managers for Scholarly Impact Measurement

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This paper investigates whether CiteULike and Mendeley are useful for measuring scholarly influence, using a sample of 1,613 papers published in Nature and Science in 2007. Traditional citation counts from the Web of Science (WoS) were used as benchmarks to compare with the number of users who bookmarked the articles in one of the two free online reference manager sites. Statistically significant correlations were found between the user counts and the corresponding WoS citation counts, suggesting that this type of influence is related in some way to traditional citation-based scholarly impact but the number of users of these systems seems to be still too small for them to challenge traditional citation indexes.

A Taxonomic Review of Supply Chain Management Research

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In the previous chapters, we focused largely on quantitative approaches to solving Supply Chain Management (SCM) problems including such issues as: inventory management, supply contracts, information flow, product variety, and international operations. In this chapter, we will broaden our focus to include other approaches to

Advanced bibliometric methods for the evaluation of Universities

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Coverage and adoption of altmetrics sources in the bibliometric community

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Altmetrics, indices based on social media platforms and tools, have recently emerged as alternative means of measuring scholarly impact. Such indices assume that scholars in fact populate online social environments, and interact with scholarly products there. We tested this assumption by examining the use and coverage of social media environments amongst a sample of bibliometricians. As expected, coverage varied: 82% of articles published by sampled bibliometricians were included in Mendeley libraries, while only 28% were included in CiteULike. Mendeley bookmarking was moderately correlated (.45) with Scopus citation. Over half of respondents asserted that social media tools were affecting their professional lives, although uptake of online tools varied widely. 68% of those surveyed had LinkedIn accounts, while Academia.edu, Mendeley, and ResearchGate each claimed a fifth of respondents. Nearly half of those responding had Twitter accounts, which they used both personally and professionally. Surveyed bibliometricians had mixed opinions on altmetrics' potential; 72% valued download counts, while a third saw potential in tracking articles' influence in blogs, Wikipedia, reference managers, and social media. Altogether, these findings suggest that some online tools are seeing substantial use by bibliometricians, and that they present a potentially valuable source of impact data.

Statistical Bibliography or Bibliometrics?

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Alan Pritchard

Increasing participation in online communities: A framework for human–computer interaction

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Jonathan Bishop

Online communities are becoming an accepted part of the lives of Internet users, although participation in these communities is dependent on the types of people that form them. Some of the online community’s members do not participate, people referred to as lurkers, whereas others who have been in the community for a long time, referred to as elders, participate regularly and support others. Understanding what drives these individuals and how they chose whether or not to participate will lead to online communities that thrive. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to describe what drives such individuals to carry out actions such as posting messages and adding content (level 1), the cognitions they use to determine whether or not to take such actions (level 2) and the means by which they go about carrying out the action in the environment (level 3). Finally, the framework is applied to the problem of encouraging members to participate by discussing the methods by which people can be persuaded to participate by changing the way they interpret their desires and their environment.

Comparing university rankings

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Recently there is increasing interest in university rankings. Annual rankings of world universities are published by QS for the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Higher Education and Accreditation Council of Taiwan and rankings based on Web visibility by the Cybermetrics Lab at CSIC. In this paper we compare the rankings using a set of similarity measures. For the rankings that are being published for a number of years we also examine longitudinal patterns. The rankings limited to European universities are compared to the ranking of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. The findings show that there are reasonable similarities between the rankings, even though each applies a different methodology. The biggest differences are between the rankings provided by the QS-Times Higher Education Supplement and the Ranking Web of the CSIC Cybermetrics Lab. The highest similarities were observed between the Taiwanese and the Leiden rankings from European universities. Overall the similarities are increased when the comparison is limited to the European universities.

A Hirsch-Type Index for Journals

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In this note some new fields of application of Hirsch-related statistics are presented. Furthermore, so far unrevealed properties of the h-index are analysed in the context of rank-frequency and extreme-value statistics.

The state of h index research. Is the h index the ideal way to measure research performance?

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How does one measure the quality of science? The question is not rhetorical; it is extremely relevant to promotion committees, funding agencies, national academies and politicians, all of whom need a means by which to recognize and reward good research and good researchers. Identifying high‐quality science is necessary for science to progress, but measuring quality becomes even more important in a time when individual scientists and entire research fields increasingly compete for limited amounts of money. The most obvious measure available is the bibliographic record of a scientist or research institute—that is, the number and impact of their publications. > Identifying high‐quality science is necessary for science to progress… Currently, the tool most widely used to determine the quality of scientific publications is the journal impact factor (IF), which is calculated by the scientific division of Thomson Reuters (New York, NY, USA) and is published annually in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The IF itself was developed in the 1960s by Eugene Garfield and Irving H. Sher, who were concerned that simply counting the number of articles a journal published in any given year would miss out small but influential journals in their Science Citation Index (Garfield, 2006). The IF is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year and is calculated by dividing the number of citations in the JCR year—for example, 2007—by the total number of articles published in the two previous years—2005 and 2006. Owing to the availability and utility of the IF, promotion committees, funding agencies and scientists have taken to using it as a shorthand assessment of the quality of scientists or institutions, rather than only journals. As Garfield has noted, this use of the IF is often necessary, owing to time …

Connected scholars: Examining the role of social media in research practices of faculty using the UTAUT model

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Social media has become mainstream in recent years, and its adoption has skyrocketed. Following this trend among the general public, scholars are also increasingly adopting these tools for their professional work. The current study seeks to learn if, why and how scholars are using social media for communication and information dissemination, as well as validate and update the results of previous scholarship in this area. The study is based on the content analysis of 51 semi-structured interviews of scholars in the Information Science and Technology field. Unlike previous studies, the current work aims not only to highlight the specific social media tools used, but also discover factors that influence intention and use of social media by scholars. To achieve this, the paper uses the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), a widely adopted technology acceptance theory. This paper contributes new knowledge to methodological discussions as it is the first known study to employ UTAUT to interpret scholarly use of social media. It also offers recommendations about how UTAUT can be expanded to better fit examinations of social media use within scholarly practices.

Mendeley Readership Altmetrics for the Social Sciences and Humanities: Research Evaluation and Knowledge Flows

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Aug 2014

Although there is evidence that counting the readers of an article in the social reference site, Mendeley, may help to capture its research impact, the extent to which this is true for different scientific fields is unknown. This study compares Mendeley readership counts with citations for different social sciences and humanities disciplines. The overall correlation between Mendeley readership counts and citations for the social sciences was higher than for the humanities. Low and medium correlations between Mendeley bookmarks and citation counts in all the investigated disciplines suggest that these measures reflect different aspects of research impact. Mendeley data was also used to discover patterns of information flow between scientific fields. Comparing information flows based on Mendeley bookmarking data and cross disciplinary citation analysis for the disciplines revealed substantial similarities and some differences. Thus, the evidence from this study suggests that Mendeley readership data could be used to help capture knowledge transfer across scientific disciplines, especially for people that read but do not author articles, as well as giving impact evidence at an earlier stage than is possible with citation counts.

Bibliometrics as a Research Assessment Tool-Impact Beyond the Impact Factor

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Trends in transforming scholarly communication and their implications

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Nov 2003
INFORM PROCESS MANAG

Ziming Liu

Scholarly communication is undergoing transformation under the confluence of many forces. The purpose of this article is to explore trends in transforming scholarly publishing and their implications. It examines how collaboration and volume of information production were changed over the past century. It also explores how older documents are used under today’s network environment where new information is easily accessible. Understanding these trends would help us design more effective electronic scholarly publishing systems and digital libraries, and serve the needs of scholars more responsively.

Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact

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In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools exposes and reifies scholarly processes once hidden and ephemeral. Metrics based on this activities could inform broader, faster measures of impact, complementing traditional citation metrics. This study explores the properties of these social media-based metrics or "altmetrics", sampling 24,331 articles published by the Public Library of Science. We find that that different indicators vary greatly in activity. Around 5% of sampled articles are cited in Wikipedia, while close to 80% have been included in at least one Mendeley library. There is, however, an encouraging diversity; a quarter of articles have nonzero data from five or more different sources. Correlation and factor analysis suggest citation and altmetrics indicators track related but distinct impacts, with neither able to describe the complete picture of scholarly use alone. There are moderate correlations between Mendeley and Web of Science citation, but many altmetric indicators seem to measure impact mostly orthogonal to citation. Articles cluster in ways that suggest five different impact "flavors", capturing impacts of different types on different audiences; for instance, some articles may be heavily read and saved by scholars but seldom cited. Together, these findings encourage more research into altmetrics as complements to traditional citation measures.

Forming relationship commitments to online communities: The role of social motivations

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COMPUT HUM BEHAV

Although administrators of online communities (OCs) may focus on improving their OCs through upgrading technology and enhancing the usability of their OCs to attract additional users, the level of OC participation may be associated with social motives. The purpose of this study is to understand how social motivations (that is, network externalities and social norms) affect members committed to OCs. This study tests the hypotheses on data collected from 396 undergraduate students. Data analyses show that network externalities and social norms directly influence social interaction ties, which subsequently results in commitment toward a community. Social norms also directly influence relationship commitments to a community. The results provide insights into how social motivations lead to commitment to an OC, reminding OC administrators to encourage member commitment to the OC from the perspective of social motivations.

A Hirsch-type index for journals

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Jan 2006
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SciVal Experts: A Collaborative Tool

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Jul 2011
Med Ref Serv Q

SciVal Experts is a resource for finding experts and fostering collaboration. The tool creates researcher profiles with automatically updated publication and grant information and faculty-inputted curriculum vitae, more fully capturing a researcher's body of work. SciVal Experts indexes campus-based "experts" by research topic, allowing faculty to find potential research partners and mentors, furthering translational research opportunities and dissemination of knowledge.

Statistical power ANALYSIS for the Behavioral sciences

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Jan 1988
J AM STAT ASSOC

Jacob Cohen

Incluye bibliografía e índice

Bibliometric Indicators: Quality Measurements of Scientific Publication

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May 2010
RADIOLOGY

Bibliometrics is a set of mathematical and statistical methods used to analyze and measure the quantity and quality of books, articles, and other forms of publications. There are three types of bibliometric indicators: quantity indicators, which measure the productivity of a particular researcher; quality indicators, which measure the quality (or "performance") of a researcher's output; and structural indicators, which measure connections between publications, authors, and areas of research. Bibliometric indicators are especially important for researchers and organizations, as these measurements are often used in funding decisions, appointments, and promotions of researchers. As more and more scientific discoveries occur and published research results are read and then quoted by other researchers, bibliometric indicators are becoming increasingly important. This article provides an overview of the currently used bibliometric indicators and summarizes the critical elements and characteristics one should be aware of when evaluating the quantity and quality of scientific output.

Why the Impact Factor of Journals Should Not Be Used for Evaluating Research

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Mar 1997

Per Ottar Seglen

Evaluating scientific quality is a notoriously difficult problem which has no standard solution. Ideally, published scientific results should be scrutinised by true experts in the field and given scores for quality and quantity according to established rules. In practice, however, what is called peer review is usually performed by committees with general competence rather than with the specialist's insight that is needed to assess primary research data. Committees tend, therefore, to resort to secondary criteria like crude publication counts, journal prestige, the reputation of authors and institutions, and estimated importance and relevance of the research field,1 making peer review as much of a lottery as of a rational process.2 3 On this background, it is hardly surprising that alternative methods for evaluating research are being sought, such as citation rates and journal impact factors, which seem to be quantitative and objective indicators directly related to published science. The citation data are obtained from a database produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia, which continuously records scientific citations as represented by the reference lists of articles from a large number of the world's scientific journals. The references are rearranged in the database to show how many times each publication has been cited within a certain period, and by whom, and the results are published as the Science Citation Index (SCI) . On the basis of the Science Citation Index and authors' publication lists, the annual citation rate of papers by a scientific author or research group can thus be calculated. Similarly, the citation rate of a scientific journal—known as the journal impact factor—can be calculated as the mean citation rate of all the articles contained in the journal.4 Journal impact factors, which are published annually in SCI Journal Citation Reports , are widely regarded as …

An Index to Quantify An Individual's Scientific Research Output

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Nov 2005

Jorge E. Hirsch

I propose the index h, defined as the number of papers with citation number ≥h, as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher. • citations • impact • unbiased

The History and Meaning of the Journal Impact Factor

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Feb 2006
J Am Med Assoc

Eugene Garfield

I first mentioned the idea of an impact factor in Science in 1955.¹ With support from the National Institutes of Health, the experimental Genetics Citation Index was published, and that led to the 1961 publication of the Science Citation Index.² Irving H. Sher and I created the journal impact factor to help select additional source journals. To do this we simply re-sorted the author citation index into the journal citation index. From this simple exercise, we learned that initially a core group of large and highly cited journals needed to be covered in the new Science Citation Index (SCI). Consider that, in 2004, the Journal of Biological Chemistry published 6500 articles, whereas articles from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences were cited more than 300 000 times that year. Smaller journals might not be selected if we rely solely on publication count,³ so we created the journal impact factor (JIF).

SciVal metrics guidebook

Feb 2014

L Colledge
R Verlinde

Colledge, L., & Verlinde, R. (2014, February). SciVal metrics guidebook. Retrieved March 16, 2015, from https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/ 53327/scival-metrics-guidebook-v1_01-february2014.pdf.

How Ijad Madisch aims to disrupt science research with a social network

Jan 2012

K A Dolan

Dolan, K. A. (2012). How Ijad Madisch aims to disrupt science research with a social network. Lists. Forbes. Retrieved from. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ kerryadolan/2012/07/19/how-ijad-madisch-aims-to-disrupt-science-researchwith-a-social-network/.

Celebrating seven million members and seven years of ResearchGate

Mar 2015

Researchgate

ResearchGate. (2015, March 10). Celebrating seven million members and seven years of ResearchGate. Retrieved from https://explore.researchgate.net/display/ news/2015/05/22/.

ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers?

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