Perceived value of scholarly articles

Tenopir, Carol; Allard, Suzie; Bates, Benjamin J.; Levine, Kenneth J.; King, Donald W.; Birch, Ben; Mays, Regina; Caldwell, Chris K.

doi:10.1087/20110207

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“…Among the different characteristics of a research article, which are considered when taking the decision what to read, the source of the article and the title of the journal figure highly, as high as its online presence, though not as high as its topic. Tenopir et al (2010;2011) reported that the highest rated articles are those written by: (a) a top-tier author, in a peer reviewed journal, available online at no personal cost to the reader; (b) by a top-tier author, in a peer-reviewed journal not in the top tier, available online at no personal cost to the reader. Many studies had demonstrated that researchers in the sciences tend to read more in electronic journals or from e-prints than do humanists or those in the social sciences (Rusch-Feja and Siebeky 1999); Tenopir et al 2009) although Vakkari (2008) has shown that when normalising for availability, humanities faculty are no less inclined to use electronic journals.…”

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Scholarly communication and matters of trust and authority: A comparative analysis of Malaysian and Chinese researchers

Abrizah

Nicholas³

2017

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Scholarly communication and matters of trust and authority: A comparative analysis of Malaysian and Chinese researchers

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Nicholas³

2017

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“…For example, Tenopir et al's (2011) survey showed that scholars look at prestige of the journal; the reputation of the authors; the institutional affiliation of the authors; the type of publisher of the article; the online accessibility of the article; and the source of the article (refereed journals or non-journal sources). These are, however, the actions scholars say they do or they think they do.…”

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Log Usage Analysis: What it Discloses about Use, Information Seeking and Trustworthiness

Nicholas¹,

Clark²,

Jamali³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Te

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The Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications in the Light of the Digital Transition research project 1) was a study which investigated the behaviours and attitudes of academic researchers as producers and consumers of scholarly information resources in respect to how they determine authority and trustworthiness. The research questions for the study arose out of CIBER's studies of the virtual scholar. This paper focuses on elements of this study, mainly an analysis of a scholarly publisher's usage logs, which was undertaken at the start of the project in order to build an evidence base, which would help calibrate the main methodological tools used by the project: interviews and questionnaire. The specific purpose of the log study was to identify and assess the digital usage behaviours that potentially raise trustworthiness and authority questions. Results from the self-report part of the study were additionally used to explain the logs. The main findings were that: 1) logs provide a good indicator of use and information seeking behaviour, albeit in respect to just a part of the information seeking journey; 2) the 'lite' form of information seeking behaviour observed in the logs is a sign of users trying to make their mind up in the face of a tsunami of information as to what is relevant and to be trusted; 3) Google and Google Scholar are the discovery platforms of choice for academic researchers, which partly points to the fact that they are influenced in what they use and read by ease of access; 4) usage is not a suitable proxy for quality.

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“…() found that researchers used a variety of characteristics to determine which articles to read and cite. Topic, accessibility of article, and source of article were the top choices, and author, type of publisher, and associated institution ranked last (Tenopir et al., , ). Researchers are more likely to read articles from top authors or unknown authors rather than from “known but weak authors” (Tenopir et al., ).…”

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Trustworthiness and authority of scholarly information in a digital age: Results of an international questionnaire

Tenopir

Levine

Allard

et al. 2015

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An international survey of over 3,600 researchers examined how trustworthiness and quality are determined for making decisions on scholarly reading, citing, and publishing and how scholars perceive changes in trust with new forms of scholarly communication. Although differences in determining trustworthiness and authority of scholarly resources exist among age groups and fields of study, traditional methods and criteria remain important across the board. Peer review is considered the most important factor for determining the quality and trustworthiness of research. Researchers continue to read abstracts, check content for sound arguments and credible data, and rely on journal rankings when deciding whether to trust scholarly resources in reading, citing, or publishing. Social media outlets and open access publications are still often not trusted, although many researchers believe that open access has positive implications for research, especially if the open access journals are peer reviewed.

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Perceived value of scholarly articles

Cited by 23 publications

References 9 publications

Scholarly communication and matters of trust and authority: A comparative analysis of Malaysian and Chinese researchers

Scholarly communication and matters of trust and authority: A comparative analysis of Malaysian and Chinese researchers

Log Usage Analysis: What it Discloses about Use, Information Seeking and Trustworthiness

Trustworthiness and authority of scholarly information in a digital age: Results of an international questionnaire

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