[EN] The new web-based academic communication platforms do not only enable researchers to better advertise their academic outputs, making them more visible than ever before, but they also provide a wide supply of metrics ...
[EN] New sources of citation data have recently become available, such as Microsoft Academic, Dimensions, and the OpenCitations Index of CrossRef open DOI-to-DOI citations (COCI). Although these have been compared to the ...
[EN] Despite citation counts from Google Scholar (GS), Web of Science (WoS), and Scopus being widely consulted by researchers and sometimes used in research evaluations, there is no recent or systematic evidence about the ...
Orduña Malea, Enrique; Martín-Martín , Alberto; Delgado López-Cózar, Emilio(Instituto de Salud Carlos III/BNCS/SciELO Espana, 2016)
[EN] This study aims to promote reflection and bring attention to the potential
adverse effects of academic social networks on science. These academic
social networks, where authors can display their publications, have ...