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#impact

The use of the current research publications performance metrics (citations, altmetrics, webometris, etc) is, in our opinion, based on a false premise that the impact (or even quality) of a research paper can be assessed purely based on external data without considering the…

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Citations are insufficient evidence of impact, quality and research contribution

However, citations are one of many attributes surrounding a publication and by themselves provide an insufficient evidence of impact, quality and research contribution. This is due to a wide range of characteristics they exhibit, including the variations in sentiment (positive…

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Impact depends on content, not interactions

In this paper, we present an approach for assessing the impact of a paper based on its full-text (Section 2). In this context, we use the term impact to refer to the research contribution to the discipline, which we believe is independent of the number of interactions in a…

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Altmetrics: A Manifesto – Altmetrics.org

Altmetrics

Peer-review has served scholarship well, but is beginning to show its age. It is slow, encourages conventionality, and fails to hold reviewers accountable. Moreover, given that most papers are eventually published somewhere, peer-review fails to limit the volume of research…

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Citation Indexes In Sociological And Historical Research

Quantitative measure of scientific impact

One can also program the computer to “erase” one or more nodes and its connections in the network. By making the assumption that any papers which derive from these nodes should also be erased, one can then determine whether an alternate “critical path” to a subsequent discovery…

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