Nowadays, the importance of bibliographic databases (DBs) has increased enormously, as
they are the main providers of publication metadata and bibliometric indicators universally …

Citations are increasingly used as performance indicators in research policy and within the
research system. Usually, citations are assumed to reflect the impact of the research or its …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics are likely to have a significant long-term impact on
higher education (HE). The scope of this impact is hard to grasp partly because the literature …

We analyzed how often and in what ways the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is currently used in
review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) documents of a representative sample of universities …

Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in
popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been …

Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

In 2015, Learned Publishing published an article introducing the Contributor Role
Taxonomy (CRediT), in which the authors proposed a shift to a more holistic way for authors …

Assessment of researchers is necessary for decisions of hiring, promotion, and tenure. A
burgeoning number of scientific leaders believe the current system of faculty incentives and …

Dimensions is a new scholarly search database that focuses on the broader set of use cases
that academics now face. By including awarded grants, patents, and clinical trials alongside …

There is a long history of the science of intelligent machines and its potential to provide
scientific insights have been debated since the dawn of AI. In particular, there is renewed …