Citations: Indicators of quality? The impact fallacy

L Leydesdorff, L Bornmann, JA Comins… - Frontiers in Research …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
We argue that citation is a composed indicator: short-term citations can be considered as
currency at the research front, whereas long-term citations can contribute to the codification …

Studying the emerging global brain: Analyzing and visualizing the impact of co‐authorship teams

K Börner, L Dall'Asta, W Ke, A Vespignani - Complexity, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This article introduces a suite of approaches and measures to study the impact of co‐
authorship teams based on the number of publications and their citations on a local and …

Does interdisciplinary research lead to higher citation impact? The different effect of proximal and distal interdisciplinarity

A Yegros-Yegros, I Rafols, P D'este - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
This article analyses the effect of degree of interdisciplinarity on the citation impact of
individual publications for four different scientific fields. We operationalise interdisciplinarity …

What does it mean to be an author? The intersection of credit, contribution, and collaboration in science

JP Birnholtz - Journal of the American Society for Information …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, I draw on interview data gathered in the High Energy Physics (HEP)
community to address recent problems stemming from collaborative research activity that …

Open access meets discoverability: Citations to articles posted to Academia. edu

Y Niyazov, C Vogel, R Price, B Lund, D Judd, A Akil… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Using matching and regression analyses, we measure the difference in citations between
articles posted to Academia. edu and other articles from similar journals, controlling for field …

Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas

Y Lin, CB Frey, L Wu - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Theories of innovation emphasize the role of social networks and teams as facilitators of
breakthrough discoveries,,–. Around the world, scientists and inventors are more plentiful …

The association between prior knowledge and the disruption of an article

L Sheng, D Lyu, X Ruan, H Shen, Y Cheng - Scientometrics, 2023 - Springer
Disruptive research that reveals an important innovation in science can reshape existing
pathways. This paper studies the relationship between the prior knowledge the research …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying breakthrough scientific papers

P Savov, A Jatowt, R Nielek - Information Processing & Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Citation analysis does not tell the whole story about the innovativeness of scientific papers.
Works by prominent authors tend to receive disproportionately many citations, while …

[PDF][PDF] Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart's Law in action

M Fire, C Guestrin - GigaScience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing
numbers of publications each year and shifting publishing patterns. However, the metrics …

Scientific journals still matter in the era of academic search engines and preprint archives

L Kim, JH Portenoy, JD West… - Journal of the Association …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Journals play a critical role in the scientific process because they evaluate the quality of
incoming papers and offer an organizing filter for search. However, the role of journals has …