A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is enhance its citation or social impact. In this study we assessed the and altmetric advantage of bioRxiv, a preprint server biological sciences. We retrieved metadata all bioRxiv deposited between November 2013 December 2017, matched them articles that were subsequently published in peer-reviewed journals. Citation data from Scopus Altmetric.com used compare online sharing behavior preprints, related...

Since 2013, the usage of preprints as a means sharing research in biology has rapidly grown, particular via preprint server bioRxiv. Recent studies have found that journal articles were previously posted to bioRxiv received higher number citations or mentions/shares on other online platforms compared same journals not posted. However, exact causal mechanism for this effect been established, and may part be related authors’ biases selection are chosen preprints. We aimed investigate by...

Purpose The recent proliferation of preprints could be a way for researchers worldwide to increase the availability and visibility their research findings. Against background rising publication costs caused by increasing prevalence article processing fees, search other ways publish results besides traditional journal may increase. This especially true lower-income countries. Design/methodology/approach Therefore, authors are interested in experiences attitudes towards posting using Global...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology with applications across multiple domains. The corpus of work related to the field AI grown significantly in volume well terms application wider However, given wide diverse areas, measurement and characterization span research is often challenging task. Bibliometrics well-established method scientific community measure patterns impact research. It however also received significant criticism for its overemphasis on...

The paper discusses and analyzes the scientific search service Google Scholar (GS). focus is on an exploratory study which investigates coverage of serials in GS. shows deficiencies up-to-dateness GS index. Furthermore, points up Web servers are most important data providers for this information sources highly represented. We can show that there a relatively large gap Scholars German literature as well weaknesses accessibility Open Access content. Keywords: Search engines, Digital libraries,...

OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to the established proprietary sources, Web Science Scopus. As provides its data freely openly, it permits researchers perform bibliometric studies that can be reproduced in community without licensing barriers. However, as rapidly evolving contained within expanding also quickly changing, question naturally arises trustworthiness data. In this empirical paper, we will study reference metadata coverage each database...

A small amount of unscrupulous people, concerned by their career prospects, resort to paper mill services publish articles in renowned journals and conference proceedings. These include patchworks synonymized contents using paraphrasing tools, featuring tortured phrases, increasingly polluting the scientific literature. The Problematic Paper Screener (PPS) has been developed allow (re)assessment on PubPeer. Since most known phrases are found publications science, technology, engineering,...

Sowiport is the information portal for social sciences that contains over 8 million literature references, research projects and full texts from 18 databases, including six English-language databases ProQuest/CSA. Since its foundation seven years ago, has been re-launched on basis of popular discovery framework VuFind. In this article we present how heterogeneous different data providers can be integrated to provide user one point access science information. Further describe several...

The Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (TheSoz) is a Linked Dataset in SKOS format, which serves as crucial instrument information retrieval based on e.g. document indexing or search term recommendation. Thesauri and similar controlled vocabularies build linking bridge other datasets from Open Data cloud - even between different domains. knowledge, exposed by such links, can be processed Semantic Web applications. In this article conversion process of TheSoz to described including analysis...

In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research Open Access has led many journals converting, or 'flipping', from a closed access (CA) an open (OA) publishing model. Changing the model can influence decision of authors submit their papers journal, and article accessibility may citation behaviour. this paper we aimed understand how flipping journal OA influences journal's future publication volumes impact. We analysed two independent sets that had flipped model, one...

Purpose: To provide a critical review of Bergman's 2001 study on the Deep Web. In addition, we bring new concept into discussion, Academic Invisible Web (AIW). We define as consisting all databases and collections relevant to academia but not searchable by general-purpose internet search engines. Indexing this part is central scientific an overview approaches followed thus far. Design/methodology/approach: Discussion measures calculations, estimation based informetric laws. Literature for...

1. Abstract A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is enhance its citation or social impact, an effect which has been empirically observed in physics, astronomy and mathematics deposited arXiv. In this study we assessed the altmetric advantage of bioRxiv, a preprint server biological sciences. We retrieved metadata all bioRxiv between November 2013 December 2017, matched them articles that were subsequently published peer-reviewed journals....

Abstract Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based adjustments are necessary ensure that measurements yield the most accurate picture of impact and excellence. One problematic area is handling self-citations, which either excluded or inappropriately accounted for when using bibliometric indicators research evaluation. Here, in favor openly tracking self-citations we report on self-referencing behavior among...

Abstract This study investigates the development of open access (OA) to journal articles from authors affiliated with German universities and non-university research institutions in period 2010–2018. Beyond determining overall share openly available articles, a systematic classification distinct categories OA publishing allowed us identify different patterns adoption OA. Taking into account particularities landscape, variations terms productivity, uptake approaches are examined at meso-level...