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 …

Since the relaunch of Microsoft Academic Services (MAS) 4 years ago, scholarly
communications have undergone dramatic changes: more ideas are being exchanged …

by aging papers, esoteric books, and the comparable comforts of the ivory tower—think
Indiana Jones, without the excitement, looks, career stability, or generous funding. Yet the …

The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education in China recently
published two policy documents (Ministry of Education 2020; most 2020) that have aroused …

This paper presents an analysis of the Overton policy document database, describing the
makeup of materials indexed and the nature in which they cite academic literature. We …

We studied the research performance of 69 countries by considering two different types of
new knowledge: incremental (normal) and fundamental (radical). In principle, these two …

In this work, we try to answer the question of which method, peer review versus
bibliometrics, better predicts the future overall scholarly impact of scientific publications. We …

National research evaluation initiatives and incentive schemes choose between simplistic
quantitative indicators and time-consuming peer/expert review, sometimes supported by …

The association between productivity and impact of scientific production is a long-standing
debate in science that remains controversial and poorly understood. Here we present a …