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Scientific Output from Latin America and the Caribbean – Identification of the Main Institutions for Regional Open Access Integration Strategies
Latin America is a region in which two thirds of the investment in research and development are funded by State resources. It can be foreseen that in the near future governments in the region will encourage and promote, or require by law or mandates, that scientific output from the region become visible and accessible in open access repositories and portals. This paper presents the results of a survey to identify the institutions of the region with the largest volume of scientific output and most exposure of their output on the Web, in order to help make those institutions visible to national, regional and international organizations involved in open access strategies and programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The results show a leading position by universities from Brazil; a strong presence of universities from Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela, and some presence of universities from Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Urugua
Bibliometric studies on single journals: a review
This paper covers a total of 82 bibliometric studies on single journals (62 studies cover unique titles) published between 1998 and 2008 grouped into the following fields; Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (12 items); Medical and Health Sciences (19 items); Sciences and Technology (30 items) and Library and Information Sciences (21 items). Under each field the studies are described in accordance to their geographical location in the following order, United Kingdom, United States and Americana, Europe, Asia (India, Africa and Malaysia). For each study, elements described are (a) the journal’s publication characteristics and indexation information; (b) the objectives; (c) the sampling and bibliometric measures used; and (d) the results observed. A list of journal titles studied is appended. The results show that (a)bibliometric studies cover journals in various fields; (b) there are several revisits of some journals which are considered important; (c) Asian and African contributions is high (41.4 of total studies; 43.5 covering unique titles), United States (30.4 of total; 31.0 on unique titles), Europe (18.2 of total and 14.5 on unique titles) and the United Kingdom (10 of total and 11 on unique titles); (d) a high number of bibliometrists are Indians and as such coverage of Indian journals is high (28 of total studies; 30.6 of unique titles); and (e) the quality of the journals and their importance either nationally or internationally are inferred from their indexation status
Changes in publication languages and citation practices and their effect on the scientific impact of Russian science (1993–2010)
This paper analyses the effects of publication language on international scientific visibility of Russia
using the Web of Science. Like other developing and transition countries, it is subject to a growing pressure to
“internationalize” its scientific activities, which primarily means a shift to English as a language of scientific
communication. But to what extent does the transition to English effectively improve the impact of research?
The case of Russia is of interest in this respect as the existence of many combinations of national journals and
languages of publications (namely Russian and English, including translated journals) provides a kind of
natural experiment to test the effects of language and of publisher's country on the international visibility of
research through citations as well as on the referencing practices of authors. Our analysis points to the
conclusion that the production of original English-language papers in foreign journals is a more efficient
strategy of internationalization than the mere translation of domestic journals. Still, if the objective of a
country is to maximize the international visibility of its scientific work, then the efforts should go into the
promotion of publication in reputed English language journals in order to profit from the added impact
provided by the Matthew effect of these venues
A review of the characteristics of 108 author-level bibliometric indicators
An increasing demand for bibliometric assessment of individuals has led to a
growth of new bibliometric indicators as well as new variants or combinations
of established ones. The aim of this review is to contribute with objective
facts about the usefulness of bibliometric indicators of the effects of
publication activity at the individual level. This paper reviews 108 indicators
that can potentially be used to measure performance on the individual author
level, and examines the complexity of their calculations in relation to what
they are supposed to reflect and ease of end-user application.Comment: to be published in Scientometrics, 201
Genesis of Altmetrics or Article-level Metrics for Measuring Efficacy of Scholarly Communications: Current Perspectives
The article-level metrics (ALMs) or altmetrics becomes a new trendsetter in
recent times for measuring the impact of scientific publications and their
social outreach to intended audiences. The popular social networks such as
Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin and social bookmarks such as Mendeley and
CiteULike are nowadays widely used for communicating research to larger
transnational audiences. In 2012, the San Francisco Declaration on Research
Assessment got signed by the scientific and researchers communities across the
world. This declaration has given preference to the ALM or altmetrics over
traditional but faulty journal impact factor (JIF)-based assessment of career
scientists. JIF does not consider impact or influence beyond citations count as
this count reflected only through Thomson Reuters' Web of Science database.
Furthermore, JIF provides indicator related to the journal, but not related to
a published paper. Thus, altmetrics now becomes an alternative metrics for
performance assessment of individual scientists and their contributed scholarly
publications. This paper provides a glimpse of genesis of altmetrics in
measuring efficacy of scholarly communications and highlights available
altmetric tools and social platforms linking altmetric tools, which are widely
used in deriving altmetric scores of scholarly publications. The paper thus
argues for institutions and policy makers to pay more attention to altmetrics
based indicators for evaluation purpose but cautions that proper safeguards and
validations are needed before their adoption
The influence of online posting dates on the bibliometric indicators of scientific articles
This article analyses the difference in timing between the online
availability of articles and their corresponding print publication and how it
affects two bibliometric indicators: Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Immediacy
Index. This research examined 18,526 articles, the complete collection of
articles and reviews published by a set of 61 journals on Urology and
Nephrology in 2013 and 2014. The findings suggest that Advance Online
Publication (AOP) accelerates the citation of articles and affects the JIF and
Immediacy Index values. Regarding the JIF values, the comparison between
journals with or without AOP showed statistically significant differences
(P=0.001, Mann-Whitney U test). The Spearman's correlation between the JIF and
the median online-to-print publication delay was not statistically significant.
As to the Immediacy Index, a significant Spearman's correlation (rs=0.280,
P=0.029) was found regarding the median online-to-print publication delays for
journals published in 2014, although no statistically significant correlation
was found for those published in 2013. Most journals examined (n=52 out of 61)
published their articles in AOP. The analysis also showed different publisher
practices: eight journals did not include the online posting dates in the
full-text and nine journals published articles showing two different online
posting dates--the date provided on the journal website and another provided by
Elsevier's Science Direct. These practices suggest the need for transparency
and standardization of the AOP dates of scientific articles for calculating
bibliometric indicators for journals
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