Do proceedings papers in science fields have higher impacts than those in the field of social science and humanities?

Yang, Siluo; Qi, Fan

doi:10.1108/lht-12-2019-0239

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“…Chen et al (2021) studied the effect of interdisciplinary components' citation intensity on scientific impact. Yang and Qi (2021) investigated whether proceedings papers in science fields have higher impacts than those in social science and humanities (SSH). Bedogni et al (2022) further explored the correlation between the impact of scientific conferences and their venues.…”

Section: Research Trends Of Library and Information Science (Lis) And...mentioning

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Editorial: Special selection on bibliometrics and literature review

Chiu¹,

Ho²

2022

LHT

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Section: Research Trends Of Library and Information Science (Lis) And...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: Special selection on bibliometrics and literature review

Chiu¹,

Ho²

2022

LHT

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“…Total cites has a moderate positive correlation with the indicators values of journal discourse leading (0.361 ≤ r ≤ 0.765), indicating a significant overall consistency. Social media indicators are widely used to evaluate academic achievements, and many of them have a positive correlation between citation and online attention scores (Thelwall and Nevill, 2018;Huang et al, 2018;Lamba et al, 2021;Nuzzolese et al, 2019;Salajegheh and Dayari, 2019;Syamili and Rekha, 2017;Yang and Qi, 2021). Boetto et al (2021) used a sample of 212 scientific papers on COVID-19 and found a moderate correlation among traditional citations, social media citations, news and blog citations.…”

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Characteristics analysis and evaluation of discourse leading for academic journals: perspectives from multiple integration of altmetrics indicators and evaluation methods

Wang

2022

LHT

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PurposeUnder the background of open science, this paper integrates altmetrics data and combines multiple evaluation methods to analyze and evaluate the indicators' characteristics of discourse leading for academic journals, which is of great significance to enrich and improve the evaluation theory and indicator system of academic journals.Design/methodology/approachThis paper obtained 795,631 citations and 10.3 million altmetrics indicators data for 126,424 published papers from 151 medicine, general and internal academic journals. In this paper, descriptive statistical analysis and distribution rules of evaluation indicators are first carried out at the macro level. The distribution characteristics of evaluation indicators under different international collaboration conditions are analyzed at the micro level. Second, according to the characteristics and connotation of the evaluation indicators, the evaluation indicator system is constructed. Third, correlation analysis, factor analysis, entropy weight method and TOPSIS method are adopted to evaluate and analyze the discourse leading in medicine, general and internal academic journals by integrating altmetrics. At the same time, this paper verifies the reliability of the evaluation results.FindingsSix features of discourse leading integrated with altmetrics indicators are obtained. In the era of open science, online academic exchanges are becoming more and more popular. The evaluation activities based on altmetrics have fine-grained and procedural advantages. It is feasible and necessary to integrate altmetrics indicators and combine the advantages of multiple methods to evaluate the academic journals' discourse leading of which are in a diversified academic ecosystem.Originality/valueThis paper uses descriptive statistical analysis to analyze the distribution characteristics and distribution rules of discourse leading indicators of academic journals and to explore the availability of altmetrics indicators and the effectiveness of constructing an evaluation system. Then, combining the advantages of multiple evaluation methods, The author integrates altmetrics indicators to comprehensively evaluate the discourse leading of academic journals and verify the reliability of the evaluation results. This paper aims to provide references for enriching and improving the evaluation theory and indicator system of academic journals.

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“…Thus, altmetrics can be suitable to assess the impact of conference papers in a fast-moving research environment such that of Computer Science, as discussed in He and Han (2017). A recent study by Yang and Qi (2020) also reports that altmetrics indexes of conference papers in science fields are closely related to citations, reflecting the citation impact of proceedings papers.…”

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Does the venue of scientific conferences leverage their impact? A large scale study on Computer Science conferences

Bedogni

Cabri

Poggi

2022

LHT

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PurposeConferences bring scientists together and provide one of the most timely means for disseminating new ideas and cutting-edge works. The importance of conferences in many scientific areas is testified by quantitative indexes. The main goal of this paper is to investigate a novel research question: is there any correlation between the impact of scientific conferences and the venue where they took place?Design/methodology/approachTo measure the impact of conferences, the authors conducted a large scale analysis on the bibliographic data extracted from 3,838 Computer Science conference series and over 2.5 million papers spanning more than 30 years of research. To quantify the “touristicity'' of a venue, the authors exploited indexes about the attractiveness of a venue from reports of the World Economic Forum, and have extracted four country-wide and two city-wide touristic indexes, which measure the attractiveness and the touristicity of any country or city.FindingsThe authors found out that the two aspects are related, and the correlation with conference impact is stronger when considering country-wide touristic indexes, achieving a correlation value of more than 0.5 when considering the average citations, and more than 0.8 when considering the total citations. Moreover the almost linear correlation with the Tourist Service Infrastructure index attests the specific importance of tourist/accommodation facilities in a given country.Research limitations/implicationsThere are two main limitations of this work: (1) the use of citations to evaluate the attractiveness of the conferences and (2) the difficulty to formally define the touristic attractiveness of a venue.Practical implicationsStarting from the results concerning the correlation between different touristicity indicators and the outcome of a conference in terms of citations, it would be possible to support conference organizers in their decisions. For instance, they could plan in advance conference venues considering the same touristicity indicators, comparing different options and selecting cities which have high scores. This will allow for rapid planning of a conference venue, encompassing the easiness of travel and the attractivity of a venue, hence increasing the potential outcomes of the conference.Social implicationsRegarding the social implications, this study will enable the possibility for municipalities and conference organizers to understand what it can be improved in a specific venue to make it more attractive. This may include better transport connections or selecting cities which show a high potential regarding the touristicity index. Regarding the willingness of a researcher to submit a paper to a specific conference, it would be unaltered, meaning that what the results show is that there is already a mental process, before submitting a paper to a conference, which considers these indicators.Originality/valueThis is the first attempt to focus on the relationship of venue characteristics to conference papers. The results open up new possibilities, such as supporting conference organizers in their organization efforts.

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Do proceedings papers in science fields have higher impacts than those in the field of social science and humanities?

Cited by 12 publications

References 58 publications

Editorial: Special selection on bibliometrics and literature review

Editorial: Special selection on bibliometrics and literature review

Characteristics analysis and evaluation of discourse leading for academic journals: perspectives from multiple integration of altmetrics indicators and evaluation methods

Does the venue of scientific conferences leverage their impact? A large scale study on Computer Science conferences

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