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

Abstract

The study is a follow up of CIBER's exploratory research on Trust and Authority in Scholarly Communications conducted in 2012

National comparisons of early career researchers' scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours

“…The benefits of using Google and a smartphone for them are ease of access and ease of use. We have found elsewhere that, when Malaysian ECRs are pressed for time, the ease of availability of a source overtakes considerations about its quality (Abrizah, Xu, & Nicholas, 2017). In China, material coming out of more developed countries is prized a little more highly ( M = 2.8). Downloads are not regarded at all in the UK, where only citation metrics prevail. Finally, a stand‐out readership result is that China ECRs are markedly influenced in what they read by metrics and ranking.…”

Seeking, Reading, and Use of Scholarly Articles: An International Study of Perceptions and Behavior of Researchers

“…Geographic differences also account for some differences in use of scholarly literature [32][33][34]. Jamali et al looked at user habits when publishing, finding that, based on geographical location, researchers have certain criteria when deciding where to publish [32] and Tenopir et al looked at factors that influence readers when deciding which articles to read [35].…”

Bibliometric analysis of Central European journals in the Web of Science and JCR Social Science Edition

“…The analysis included authors' addresses, productivity parameters (authors, institutions, year of publication, article type, language, journal) and citation. Recent studies in the field of bibliometric analysis especially in social sciences and humanities have pointed out to high share of publishing articles primarily oriented to local or regional topics (Makkonen and Mitze 2016;Abrizah, Xu and Nicholas 2017;Jurajda et al 2017;Tang, Zhang and Naumann 2017). These topics are mostly published in journals and monographs with local or regional impact for limited number of readers.…”