The impact of electronic theses and dissertations: a study of the institutional repository of a university in South Africa

Bangani, Siviwe

doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2657-2

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“…One study compared the download count and print circulation of the digitised dissertations at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, finding that the average download count of dissertations for the past two years was almost 13 times higher than the average print circulation of dissertations for the last 10 years (Adamick, 2016). The average PDF views of 621 engineering doctoral dissertations was found to be 215 times much higher than their average Google Scholar citation counts (Bangani, 2018), suggesting that statistics of views or fulltext downloads may reflect wider usage of a published scholarly work, such as by students, some nonciting academics, and even non-academic users (Kurtz & Bollen, 2010).…”

Section: Downloads or Views Of Electronic Thesesmentioning

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Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Kousha

Thelwall

2019

Journal of Informetrics

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Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles are often evaluated with the help of citation counts from the Web of Science or Scopus, these do not index dissertations and so their impact is hard to assess. In response, this article introduces a new multistage method to extract Google Scholar citation counts for large collections of dissertations from repositories indexed by Google. The method was used to extract Google Scholar citation counts for 77,884 American doctoral dissertations from 2013-2017 via ProQuest, with a precision of over 95%. Some ProQuest dissertations that were dual indexed with other repositories could not be retrieved with ProQuest-specific searches but could be found with Google Scholar searches of the other repositories. The Google Scholar citation counts were then compared with Mendeley reader counts, a known source of scholarly-like impact data. A fifth of the dissertations had at least one citation recorded in Google Scholar and slightly fewer had at least one Mendeley reader. Based on numerical comparisons, the Mendeley reader counts seem to be more useful for impact assessment purposes for dissertations that are less than two years old, whilst Google Scholar citations are more useful for older dissertations, especially in social sciences, arts and humanities. Google Scholar citation counts may reflect a more scholarly type of impact than that of Mendeley reader counts because dissertations attract a substantial minority of their citations from other dissertations. In summary, the new method now makes it possible for research funders, institutions and others to systematically evaluate the impact of dissertations, although additional Google Scholar queries for other online repositories are needed to ensure comprehensive coverage.

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Section: Downloads or Views Of Electronic Thesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Kousha

Thelwall

2019

Journal of Informetrics

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“…Five of the thirteen included studies described the positive impact of IRs on citation count [12][13][14][15][16]. The most compelling of these, Gargouri 2010, demonstrated that the OA status of a paper resulting from its deposition in an IR was a statistically significant, independent, positive predictor of citation count, even when controlling for many other salient variables such as article age, journal impact factor, number of authors, number of pages, number of references cited, type of article, classification as a scientific article, and whether the first author was from the United States [14].…”

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The impact of institutional repositories: a systematic review

Demetres

Delgado

Wright

2020

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Objective: Institutional repositories are platforms for presenting and publicizing scholarly output that might not be suitable to publish in a peer-reviewed journal or that must meet open access requirements. However, there are many challenges associated with their launch and up-keep. The objective of this systematic review was to define the impacts of institutional repositories (IRs) on an academic institution, thus justifying their implementation and/or maintenance.Methods: A comprehensive literature search was performed in the following databases: Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid EMBASE, the Cochrane Library (Wiley), ERIC (ProQuest), Web of Science (Core Collection), Scopus (Elsevier), and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO). A total of 6,593 citations were screened against predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria.Results: Thirteen included studies were divided into 3 areas of impact: citation count, exposure or presence, and administrative impact. Those focusing on citation count (n=5) and exposure or presence (n=7) demonstrated positive impacts of IRs on institutions and researchers. One study focusing on administrative benefit demonstrated the utility of IRs in automated population of ORCID profiles.Conclusion: Based on the available literature, IRs appear to have a positive impact on citation count, exposure or presence, and administrative burden. To draw stronger conclusions, more and higher-quality studies are needed.

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“…Esta pesquisa utilizou metodologias similares às aplicadas nos estudos desenvolvidos por Thelwall, M. (2019); Bangani (2018), Ferreras-Fernandez;…”

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“…Segundo Bangani (2018), "o impacto acadêmico pode ser medido por meio da contribuição do método da pesquisa, teorias, resultados de pesquisa ou da influência de uma pesquisa para a academia em geral" (BANGANI, 2018, p. 133, tradução nossa). Uma das formas de mensurar o impacto acadêmico é pela análise das citações recebidas por um documento.…”

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“…Uma das formas de mensurar o impacto acadêmico é pela análise das citações recebidas por um documento. Ainda segundo Bangani (2018), "o impacto social é a influência positiva que a pesquisa tem no conhecimento, compreensão, vida, atitudes e comportamentos de uma comunidade" (BANGANI, 2018, p. 133, tradução nossa). O número de visualizações de documentos com extensão pdf, o seu compartilhamento em redes sociais ou o seu registro em gerenciadores de referências são formas, dentre outras, de determinar esse impacto.…”

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Impactos das teses e dissertações do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação da UFMG:

Costa¹,

Oliveira²,

Araújo³

2019

Inf. Pauta

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Pretendeu-se analisar os impactos acadêmico e social das teses e dissertações do Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, defendidas entre 2002 e 2018 e disponibilizadas na Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFMG. A pesquisa caracteriza-se como descritiva, exploratória e de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa, usando métodos bibliométricos e altmétricos. A amostra foi composta por 296 dissertações e 150 teses. Utilizou-se o Google Scholar para mensurar o impacto acadêmico medido em citações e o gerenciador de referências Mendeley, para o impacto social compreendido nos indicadores de marcação e de contagem de leitores. Registrou-se que as 296 dissertações receberam 899 citações e as 150 teses receberam 1.013 citações no Google Scholar. Foram identificadas 60 dissertações e 40 teses marcadas no Mendeley. As dissertações acumularam um total de 295 leitores e as teses 410 leitores no Mendeley. O uso do Google Scholar e do Mendeley permitiu apontar o acesso e a visibilidade das teses e dissertações e um expressivo impacto acadêmico e social. Embora o acesso aberto tenha tornado as teses e dissertações mais acessíveis, ainda nota-se um pequeno índice de citação, tanto para as teses, quanto para as dissertações.

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The impact of electronic theses and dissertations: a study of the institutional repository of a university in South Africa

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?

The impact of institutional repositories: a systematic review

Impactos das teses e dissertações do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação da UFMG:

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