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Web of Science (and Scopus to a lesser extent) isn't indexing diamond OA for shit.
With the growing number of open access (OA) mandates, the accurate measurement of OA publishing is an important policy issue. Existing studies have provided estimates of the prevalence of OA publications ranging from 27.9% to 53.7%, depending on the data source and period of investigation. This paper aims at providing a comparison of the proportion of OA publishing as represented in two major bibliometric databases, Web of Science (WoS) and Dimensions, and assesses how the choice of database aff...
Shadow libraries have gradually become key players of scientific knowledge dissemination, despite their illegality in most countries of the world. Many publishers and scientist-editors decry such libraries for their copyright infringement and loss of publication usage information, while some scho...
Law schools and legal scholars are not immune to the expanding use of quantitative metrics to assess the research of universities and of scholars working within
Global survey of academics finds citation scores remain highly important factors in how scholars judge each other, despite international efforts to reduce their impact.
After six months of co-creation with over 350 organisations from more than 40 countries, an agreement on the reform of research assessment has been finalised.
Social-media impact, university rankings and online-aggregator metrics are broken — better ways to assess researchers are needed.