Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics

Sugimoto, Cassidy R.; Allen, Liz; Bosman, Jeroen; Cicero, Tindaro; Curry, Stephen; Rijcke, Sarah de; Flanagin, Annette; Garfinkel, Michele S.; Hill, Michael; Larivière, Vincent; Malgarini, Marco; Martin, Ben R.; McVeigh, Marie E.; Mugabushaka, Alexis-Michel; Murray, Dakota; Pedrosa, Renato H. L.; Plume, Andrew; Pringle, J. E.; Pulverer, Bernd; Roelandse, Martijn; Shu, Fei; Walker, James; Waltman, Ludo; Wouters, Paul

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“…In many cases, OA journals have a less established IF. 50 Thus, due to these considerations, junior academics have less experience with OA journals. 51 In addition, researchers, according to librarians, do not know the copyright terms of publishers and therefore avoid self-archiving.…”

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Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change?

Hadad¹,

Aharony²

2023

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Profound changes due to Open-Access (OA) publications lead to organizational changes in universities and libraries. This study examined Israeli librarians’ perceptions regarding their role and the academic library's role in promoting OA-publication, including the barriers, challenges, needs and requirements necessary to promote OA publishing. Lack of a budget for OA-agreements and cooperation with university management, and researchers' unawareness of OA were among the most prominent barriers. Librarians see great importance in their role of advising researchers regarding OA. However, they insisted on a regulated OA-policy at the national and institutional levels, which would strengthen their status as change-leaders of the OA-movement.

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Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change?

Hadad¹,

Aharony²

2023

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“…The role that academic publishing plays in the research process is often understood to comprise registration, curation, evaluation, dissemination, and archiving 1 . This covers validation (through the peer-review process), publication (participation in the scholarly record), curation (preservation of the work to ensure its availability in perpetuity), and dissemination (to relevant communities).…”

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The disconnect between researcher ambitions and reality in achieving impact in the Earth & Environmental Sciences – author survey

Kelly¹,

Gardner²,

Gilbert³

2022

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Background: There is an increasing desire for research to provide solutions to the grand challenges facing our global society, such as those expressed in the UN SDGs (“real-world impact”). Herein, we undertook an author survey to understand how this desire influenced the choice of research topic, choice of journal, and preferred type of impact. Methods: We conducted a survey of authors who had published in >100 of our Earth & Environmental Science journals. The survey was sent to just under 60,000 authors and we received 2,695 responses (4% response rate). Results: Respondents indicated that the majority of their research (74%) is currently concerned with addressing urgent global needs, whilst 90% of respondents indicated that their work either currently contributed to meeting real-world problems or that it would be a priority for them in the future; however, the impetus for this research focus seems to be altruistic researcher desire, rather than incentives or support from publishers, funders, or their institutions. Indeed, when contextualised within existing reward and incentive structures, respondents indicated that citations or downloads were more important to them than contributing to tackling real-world problems. Conclusions: At present, it seems that the laudable and necessary ambition of researchers in the Earth & Environmental Sciences to contribute to the tackling of real-world problems, such as those included in the UN SDGs, is seemingly being lost amidst the realities of being a researcher, owing to the prioritisation of other forms of impact, such as citations and downloads.

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“…Os indicadores bibliométricos e cientométricos têm sido cada vez mais utilizados em processos de avaliação dos resultados da produção científica em todo o mundo, embora se observe uma diversidade de pesquisas, manifestos e declarações que apontam as suas fragilidades e limitações (Dora, 2012;Hicks et al, 2015;Sugimoto et al, 2019;Wouters et al, 2015;Wilsdon et al, 2015).…”

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Limites dos indicadores bibliométricos de bases de dados internacionais para avaliação da Pós-Graduação brasileira: a cobertura da Web of Science nas diferentes áreas do conhecimento

2021

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Resumo Considerando o crescimento do uso de indicadores bibliométricos e cientométricos em processos de avaliação da Pós-Graduação brasileira, buscou-se identificar o nível de cobertura da Web of Science em relação à produção bibliográfica brasileira (artigos) nas diferentes Grandes Áreas do Conhecimento e Áreas de Avaliação da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, agência pública brasileira de financiamento à pesquisa, apontando limites e possibilidades da adoção desses indicadores como mecanismos de avaliação dos resultados da atividade científica dos programas que compõem o Sistema Nacional de Pós-Graduação. Para tanto, recorreu-se ao levantamento de dados da produção bibliográfica dos 4.377 Programas de Pós-Graduação cadastrados na Plataforma Sucupira nos anos de 2017 e 2018, bem como à coleta de dados da Core Collection da Web of Science. Diante dos dados empíricos e do referencial teórico adotado, evidenciou-se que 46,56% dos periódicos utilizados para publicação por pesquisadores vinculados aos Programas de Pós-Graduação brasileiros estão indexados na base, enquanto 53,44% dos periódicos utilizados não estão indexados. Demonstrou-se variações de cobertura/indexação nas diferentes Grandes Áreas do Conhecimento e Áreas de Avaliação, assim como abordou-se a necessidade de se considerar, em processos de avaliação de Programas de Pós-Graduação, os resultados das atividades científicas para além da produção bibliográfica de artigos indexados em bases bibliográficas internacionais.

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Rethinking Impact Factors: New Pathways in Journal Metrics

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Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change?

Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change?

The disconnect between researcher ambitions and reality in achieving impact in the Earth & Environmental Sciences – author survey

Limites dos indicadores bibliométricos de bases de dados internacionais para avaliação da Pós-Graduação brasileira: a cobertura da Web of Science nas diferentes áreas do conhecimento

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