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Vera-Baceta, Miguel-Ángel; Thelwall, Mike; Kousha, Kayvan

doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03264-z

Cited by 219 publications

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“…There are also biases in each of these citation databases, e.g., WoS has been criticized for favoring North American-based, English-language journals (Mongeon and Paul-Hus 2016 ). There are a few reasons for the predominance of documents in English, and apparent under-representation of Chinese: Scopus covers more Chinese-language documents than WoS, there are not many Chinese-language journals indexed in WoS, China has its own citation index (Chinese Science Citation Database) (Vera-Baceta et al 2019 ), and most publications of authors affiliated with Chinese institutions were published in English-language journals.…”

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Publishing volumes in major databases related to Covid-19

2020

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The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, induced a global pandemic for which an effective cure, either in the form of a drug or vaccine, has yet to be discovered. In the few brief months that the world has known Covid-19, there has been an unprecedented volume of papers published related to this disease, either in a bid to find solutions, or to discuss applied or related aspects. Data from Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, and Elsevier's Scopus, which do not index preprints, were assessed. Our estimates indicate that 23,634 unique documents, 9960 of which were in common to both databases, were published between January 1 and June 30, 2020. Publications include research articles, letters, editorials, notes and reviews. As one example, amongst the 21,542 documents in Scopus, 47.6% were research articles, 22.4% were letters, and the rest were reviews, editorials, notes and other. Based on both databases, the top three countries, ranked by volume of published papers, are the USA, China, and Italy while BMJ, Journal of Medical Virology and The Lancet published the largest number of Covid-19-related papers. This paper provides one snapshot of how the publishing landscape has evolved in the first six months of 2020 in response to this pandemic and discusses the risks associated with the speed of publications.

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Publishing volumes in major databases related to Covid-19

2020

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“…However, the presence of influential world rankings pressure universities and researchers in many countries to aspire to publish in the dominant sources in order for their institutions to compete on the ranking scale. This devalues diverse research from non-dominant countries in the global south, non-English languages, indigenous and minority populations and in disciplines such as the humanities and political activist scholarship where the primary output format is not journal publications [6,7]. Even universities that explicitly refuse to participate in rankings continue to be included in their listings [8].…”

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Becoming Open Knowledge Institutions: Divergence, Dialogue and Diversity

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Neylon

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Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue

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The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) is an innovative research project that collects and analyses publicly available research output data to assist and encourage researchers, academics, administrators and executives to understand the actual and potential reach of openness in research, and to assess their progress on the path towards open knowledge institutions. By taking a broad global approach and using multiple data sources, the project diverges from existing approaches, methods and bibliometric measures in the scholarly research environment. It combines analysis of research output, citations, publication sources and publishers, funders, social media events, open and not open access to provide overviews of research output and performance at institutional, funder, consortial and country levels. The project collects and analyses personnel diversity data such as gender, focusing on widening the reach of data analysis to emphasise the importance and value of diversity in research and knowledge production. Interactive visual tools present research output and performance to encourage understanding and dialogue among researchers and management. The path towards becoming open knowledge institutions involves a process of cultural change, moving beyond dominant publishing and evaluation practices. This paper discusses how through divergence, diversity and dialogue the COKI project can contribute to this change, with examples of applications in understanding and embracing openness.

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“…Our respondents were primarily drawn from the pool of published authors in the Scopus database. Some disciplinary domains are under-represented within Scopus, most notably the arts and humanities 38 , 39 . Subject indexing within Scopus occurs at the journal or source level.…”

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A dataset describing data discovery and reuse practices in research

Gregory

2020

Sci Data

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This paper presents a dataset produced from the largest known survey examining how researchers and support professionals discover, make sense of and reuse secondary research data. 1677 respondents in 105 countries representing a variety of disciplinary domains, professional roles and stages in their academic careers completed the survey. The results represent the data needs, sources and strategies used to locate data, and the criteria employed in data evaluation of these respondents. The data detailed in this paper have the potential to be reused to inform the development of data discovery systems, data repositories, training activities and policies for a variety of general and specific user communities.

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Web of Science and Scopus language coverage

Cited by 219 publications

References 16 publications

Publishing volumes in major databases related to Covid-19

Publishing volumes in major databases related to Covid-19

Becoming Open Knowledge Institutions: Divergence, Dialogue and Diversity

A dataset describing data discovery and reuse practices in research

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