Invisible Publications: A Study of Academic Productivity in the Web of Science Database

• DOI: 10.3989/redc.2024.1.1454
• Publication Date: 2024-02-28T09:07:57Z
• Authors: Eliandro Schvirck; Caroline Lievore; Priscila Rubbo; José Roberto Herr...; Luiz Alberto Pilatti
• Keywords: Quartile; Sample (material); Stratified Sampling; Variables

The present study aims to outline the profile of uncited or rarely cited articles indexed in Web Science database between 2017 and 2021. We used stratified random sampling 14,425 journals extract our sample 373 journals. dependent variable was defined as number citations, with independent variables being JCR index, maturity, quartile, language publication, whether research funded. Descriptive statistics were characterize according field variable. A negative binomial regression method estimate which influence citations received by sample. found that 256,524 make up corpus, 39,469 (15.39%) no 91,963 (35.85%) four citations. positively influenced estimates maturity (0.481), index (0.159), funding (0.020), while quartile (-0.170) (-1.032) had a on conclude pressures academic productivism create vicious cycle studies are referenced based their ranking struggle for privileged editorial space, higher more prone citation.