Measuring open access publications: a novel normalized open access indicator

Maddi, Abdelghani

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03470-0

Cited by 22 publications

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“…Because of the widespread practice of evaluating research based on the quality of scientific output, the quality of the journal is becoming a leading criterion when choosing a journal for publications, since the quality of research is currently judged by the quality of the journal in which it was published. The question of journal quality has become even more important with the growing interest in Open Access (OA) publishing [125,126]. This publishing model is aimed at enabling scientific content to be freely available for public without the requirement of journal subscription.…”

Section: Content Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet, because the investigations of OA publications and journals are currently gaining momentum, there is still a lack of credible empirical proofs to support or deny any of the aforementioned assumptions [149]. Moreover, it was also noted that the results of the performed related empirical studies strongly depend on the data source used [125,152,153].…”

Section: Open Access Content and "Predatory" Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

2021

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Nowadays, the importance of bibliographic databases (DBs) has increased enormously, as they are the main providers of publication metadata and bibliometric indicators universally used both for research assessment practices and for performing daily tasks. Because the reliability of these tasks firstly depends on the data source, all users of the DBs should be able to choose the most suitable one. Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus are the two main bibliographic DBs. The comprehensive evaluation of the DBs’ coverage is practically impossible without extensive bibliometric analyses or literature reviews, but most DBs users do not have bibliometric competence and/or are not willing to invest additional time for such evaluations. Apart from that, the convenience of the DB’s interface, performance, provided impact indicators and additional tools may also influence the users’ choice. The main goal of this work is to provide all of the potential users with an all-inclusive description of the two main bibliographic DBs by gathering the findings that are presented in the most recent literature and information provided by the owners of the DBs at one place. This overview should aid all stakeholders employing publication and citation data in selecting the most suitable DB.

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Section: Content Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Open Access Content and "Predatory" Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

2021

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“…Open access (OA) to scientific achievement means the removal of barriers from accessing scholarly works driven by the rapid increase of knowledge dissemination and aiming at academic sharing (Maddi 2020). OA allows researchers to publish works online so that anyone interested in downloading and reading the work does not face any barriers.…”

Section: The Importance Of Open Access and Open Access Booksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the relationship between the academic and social impact of open access books based on citation behaviors and social media attention

Wei

Chakoli

2020

Scientometrics

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Open access academic achievements include not only papers and journals, but also books, which have become an important achievement for scholars and can be regarded as scholarly critical products. Until recently, books have had a key role in the distribution of knowledge and the main issue is which category of open or non-open access books is more effective in academic society. Thus, this study compares the difference between open access and non-open access books in terms of knowledge distribution. We collected and analyzed data from Twitter, Mendeley, and Dimensions platform, as well as the dataset of all Springer books. Twitter and Mendeley are considered alternative metric indicators, which reflect impacts with citation indicators. Data were analyzed from static and comparative perspectives. Results showed a relationship between academic impact and social impact based on citation and social media attention for OA books, and indicated that open access books boost knowledge distribution in Twitter and Mendeley for the sample of books drawn from Springer under study. Moreover, the open access books have the added advantage of keeping sustained impact for a long time. It is sensible to assess the impact of OA books through knowledge distribution. However, there is no significant correlation between citation and social media attention regarding OA books and also the social and academic impact of books in some disciplines such as Geography, Medicine, and Public Health, Culture, and Media Studies attract more social media attention. According to the analysis, the correlation with citations for the number of mentions on social media is negligible, which indicates that social media measures bear different impacts from citations. However, social impact is similar to the complementary measures which should be considered within the impact evaluation of OA books. Therefore, only when OA books are accessed through the channels of communication can the knowledge contained in books be absorbed to generate impact, and lowering the access barrier does lead to more attention found for OA research papers. The findings demonstrated that the OA books and OA papers do not have similar impacts on the citation. Also, OA books could not attract more citations than non-OA books in some disciplines, which is why open access books have a significant impact on social media attention.

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“…Yet, only 12% of said articles were found to be actually self-archived, with scholars in certain disciplines such as chemistry and chemical engineering not even reaching 10% [45]. Nearly ten years later, extending this analysis to all articles indexed in the Web of Science (a commercial bibliographic database), the share of green self-archived articles was found to be 4%, with another 7% made OA directly by journal editors [46]. This, once again, reveals the widespread need for scholars in all disciplines to have updated education of the practical value in the field of open science [16].…”

Section: Teaching Open Sciencementioning

confidence: 90%

Did You Ask for Citations? An Insight into Preprint Citations en route to Open Science

Pagliaro

2021

Publications

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This study investigates citation patterns between 2017 and 2020 for preprints published in three preprint servers, one specializing in biology (bioRxiv), one in chemistry (ChemRxiv), and another hosting preprints in all disciplines (Research Square). Showing evidence that preprints are now regularly cited in peer reviewed journal articles, books, and conference papers, the outcomes of this investigation further substantiate the value of open science also in relation to citation-based metrics on which the evaluation of scholarship continues to rely on. This analysis will be useful to inform new research-based education in today’s scholarly communication.

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Measuring open access publications: a novel normalized open access indicator

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

Evaluating the relationship between the academic and social impact of open access books based on citation behaviors and social media attention

Did You Ask for Citations? An Insight into Preprint Citations en route to Open Science

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