Research on impact evaluation of open access journals

Wei, Mingkun

doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03306-6

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“…The question was whether open access books have a positive impact on the number of citations, tweets, and Mendeley, taking into account the impact of scholarly communication. The correlation between the number of citations and Altmetrics indicators has previously been investigated concerning journal articles (Wei 2020). Here, the correlation between open access books citation and social media is investigated.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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“…Some scientists are making their research openly accessible to increase visibility, attention, and citation impact (Dorta-González et al 2017). A growing number of scientists and researchers are making their work available through open access channels (McGillivray and Astell 2019;Holmberg et al 2020;Wei 2020). Given the fact that the impact of scientific research is usually gauged by the number of citations, a muchdebated question is whether open access books available through OA are more frequently cited than those available only through non-OA.…”

Section: Evaluation Of the Impact Of Open Access Books And The Research Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Numerous studies have analyzed whether the academic impact is affected by open access. These studies have explored characteristics of the journal articles, using correlation and regression analysis (McGillivray and Astell 2019;Boufarss 2020;Holmberg et al 2020;Wei 2020). Measuring the impact via citation analysis has a long tradition in assessment.…”

Section: Study Of the Open Access Impact Using Citation Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating the relationship between the academic and social impact of open access books based on citation behaviors and social media attention

Wei

Chakoli

2020

Scientometrics

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Open access academic achievements include not only papers and journals, but also books, which have become an important achievement for scholars and can be regarded as scholarly critical products. Until recently, books have had a key role in the distribution of knowledge and the main issue is which category of open or non-open access books is more effective in academic society. Thus, this study compares the difference between open access and non-open access books in terms of knowledge distribution. We collected and analyzed data from Twitter, Mendeley, and Dimensions platform, as well as the dataset of all Springer books. Twitter and Mendeley are considered alternative metric indicators, which reflect impacts with citation indicators. Data were analyzed from static and comparative perspectives. Results showed a relationship between academic impact and social impact based on citation and social media attention for OA books, and indicated that open access books boost knowledge distribution in Twitter and Mendeley for the sample of books drawn from Springer under study. Moreover, the open access books have the added advantage of keeping sustained impact for a long time. It is sensible to assess the impact of OA books through knowledge distribution. However, there is no significant correlation between citation and social media attention regarding OA books and also the social and academic impact of books in some disciplines such as Geography, Medicine, and Public Health, Culture, and Media Studies attract more social media attention. According to the analysis, the correlation with citations for the number of mentions on social media is negligible, which indicates that social media measures bear different impacts from citations. However, social impact is similar to the complementary measures which should be considered within the impact evaluation of OA books. Therefore, only when OA books are accessed through the channels of communication can the knowledge contained in books be absorbed to generate impact, and lowering the access barrier does lead to more attention found for OA research papers. The findings demonstrated that the OA books and OA papers do not have similar impacts on the citation. Also, OA books could not attract more citations than non-OA books in some disciplines, which is why open access books have a significant impact on social media attention.

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Section: Evaluation Of the Impact Of Open Access Books And The Research Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating the relationship between the academic and social impact of open access books based on citation behaviors and social media attention

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2020

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“…This publishing model is aimed at enabling scientific content to be freely available for public without the requirement of journal subscription. In fact, in alignment with Plan S initiated by European Science Foundation [127], a number of countries already apply a requirement for publicly funded researches to be published by the OA model [126,[128][129][130][131][132]. However, although OA publishing is very beneficial as free access makes scientific researches more visible, transparent, and reproducible, and also shortens the time required for publication to be available online, the unintended, yet possible, OA effects on research and journal quality have become questioned [133].…”

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“…Judging from the perspective of quality, in both WoS and Scopus, OA journals are selected for indexing by applying the same criteria and policies as for the rest of indexed sources. Although OA journals indexed in the DBs are usually being estimated as having lower citation impact indicator values for the time being [128,152], this could be at least partially explained by the fact that many of OA journals are relatively new. However, the quality of indexed OA journals has not been compared between WoS and Scopus.…”

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Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

2021

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Nowadays, the importance of bibliographic databases (DBs) has increased enormously, as they are the main providers of publication metadata and bibliometric indicators universally used both for research assessment practices and for performing daily tasks. Because the reliability of these tasks firstly depends on the data source, all users of the DBs should be able to choose the most suitable one. Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus are the two main bibliographic DBs. The comprehensive evaluation of the DBs’ coverage is practically impossible without extensive bibliometric analyses or literature reviews, but most DBs users do not have bibliometric competence and/or are not willing to invest additional time for such evaluations. Apart from that, the convenience of the DB’s interface, performance, provided impact indicators and additional tools may also influence the users’ choice. The main goal of this work is to provide all of the potential users with an all-inclusive description of the two main bibliographic DBs by gathering the findings that are presented in the most recent literature and information provided by the owners of the DBs at one place. This overview should aid all stakeholders employing publication and citation data in selecting the most suitable DB.

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Research on impact evaluation of open access journals

Cited by 16 publications

References 43 publications

Evaluating the relationship between the academic and social impact of open access books based on citation behaviors and social media attention

Evaluating the relationship between the academic and social impact of open access books based on citation behaviors and social media attention

Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus: The Titans of Bibliographic Information in Today’s Academic World

CiteScore: risk of copy-cat, fake and misleading metrics

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