Referencing: The reuse factor

Hahnel, Mark

doi:10.1038/502298a

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Since these exchanges with other users may include references to publications, there is the possibility of counting these references and using them as an altmetric. (Hahnel, 2013). Online reference managers combine social bookmarking service and reference management functionalities in one platform.…”

Section: Ajim 673mentioning

confidence: 99%

Usefulness of altmetrics for measuring the broader impact of research

Bornmann

2015

Aslib Journal of Info Mgmt

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Purpose -The purpose of this case study is to investigate the usefulness of altmetrics for measuring the broader impact of research. Design/methodology/approach -This case study is based on a sample of 1,082 the Public Library of Science (PLOS) journal articles recommended in F1000. The data set includes altmetrics which were provided by PLOS. The F1000 data set contains tags on papers which were assigned by experts to characterise them. Findings -The most relevant tag for altmetric research is "good for teaching", as it is assigned to papers which could be of interest to a wider circle of readers than the peers in a specialised area. One could expect papers with this tag to be mentioned more often on Facebook and Twitter than those without this tag. The results from regression models were able to confirm these expectations: papers with this tag show significantly higher Facebook and Twitter counts than papers without this tag. This clear association could not be seen with Mendeley or Figshare counts (that is with counts from platforms which are chiefly of interest in a scientific context). Originality/value -The results of the current study indicate that Facebook and Twitter, but not Figshare or Mendeley, might provide an indication of which papers are of interest to a broader circle of readers (and not only for the peers in a specialist area), and could therefore be useful for the measurement of the societal impact of research.

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Section: Ajim 673mentioning

confidence: 99%

Usefulness of altmetrics for measuring the broader impact of research

Bornmann

2015

Aslib Journal of Info Mgmt

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“…The journal has strong editorial and ethical policies which include sharing of research data and materials as a condition of publication. We, also, strongly encourage data citation-an important driver of cultural change in scholarly research to give more credit for transparency and reproducibility (Hahnel, 2013). The need to increase reproducibility applies to all areas of research-and has been hotly debated in the social (Miguel et al, 2014) and political (http://datacommunity.icpsr .umich.edu/da-rt-workshop) sciences in the past year.…”

Section: Beyond Open Accessmentioning

confidence: 97%

Palgrave Communications – connecting research in the humanities, social sciences and business

Hrynaszkiewicz¹,

Acuto

2015

Palgrave Commun

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ere we introduce the first edition of Palgrave Communications, a high-quality peer-reviewed open access journal for research in all areas of the humanities, the social sciences (HSS) and business. The scope of the journal, the first multidisciplinary title from Palgrave Macmillan, reflects the publisher's strengths in these areas. In addition to our multidisciplinary position, Palgrave Communications particularly welcomes interdisciplinary research, which fosters interaction, creativity and reflection between disciplines. Palgrave Communications aspires to be the definitive peer-reviewed outlet for open access academic research in and between our subjects. We discuss the need for a journal like Palgrave Communications in academic research, our editorial standards, our aims and scope, and present the journal's first articles. Championing interdisciplinary research Global problems do not come in neat packages: the stresses of transnational migrations present questions for international lawyers, transport experts and conflict analysts alike, and the impacts of water scarcity equally call on civil engineers, anthropologists and natural hazard specialists. The disciplinary boundaries that are cemented in the academic world are regularly questioned by the "real world". While not necessarily antidisciplinary, interdisciplinary research is today crucial in helping to solve global social, environmental and economic problems. Yet traditional academic research assessment practices can incentivize approaches to research that lack the interdisciplinary flexibility to engage with challenges like migration, water scarcity and many others. This is exemplified, for instance, by the common placing of greater values and attentions on publications in discipline-specific journals or on particular orders of authorship on a paper, rather than a paper's content and realworld value of its arguments. Nevertheless, the orientation of some research might be changing. There are today many emerging examples of interdisciplinary research.

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“…The Impact Factor for a journal, flawed as it is, is then further used out of context as a proxy for the importance of individual articles and their authors. These short-falls, and the delays intrinsic to accumulating a significant number of citations for one's papers, have led to the development of alternative metrics of impact and esteem (Piwowar, 2013;Priem, 2013;Hahnel, 2013).…”

Section: Citation-based Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting our bibliographic references free: towards open citation data

Peroni

Dutton

Gray

et al. 2015

Journal of Documentation

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Purpose – Citation data needs to be recognised as a part of the Commons – those works that are freely and legally available for sharing – and placed in an open repository. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – The Open Citation Corpus is a new open repository of scholarly citation data, made available under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 public domain dedication and encoded as Open Linked Data using the SPAR Ontologies. Findings – The Open Citation Corpus presently provides open access (OA) to reference lists from 204,637 articles from the OA Subset of PubMed Central, containing 6,325,178 individual references to 3,373,961 unique papers. Originality/value – Scholars, publishers and institutions may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the open citation data for any purpose, without restriction under copyright or database law.

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Referencing: The reuse factor

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Usefulness of altmetrics for measuring the broader impact of research

Usefulness of altmetrics for measuring the broader impact of research

Palgrave Communications – connecting research in the humanities, social sciences and business

Setting our bibliographic references free: towards open citation data

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