ISC World University Ranking: Its correlation with Leiden, Nature Index, Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) [PDF]
The present study intended to examine ISC World University Ranking (ISC WUR) as an emerging ranking system. It draws on a descriptive-correlational method.
Maryam Yaghtin, Mansoureh Serati Shirazi
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SPECTER: Document-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers [PDF]
Representation learning is a critical ingredient for natural language processing systems. Recent Transformer language models like BERT learn powerful textual representations, but these models are targeted towards token- and sentence-level training ...
Arman Cohan +4 more
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Investigating Global Trends in Open Access: The Influence of Policies, Culturalization, and Funds on the Future of Iran's Scientific Position [PDF]
Objective: Previous research has shown that the number of open access documents in the world is increasing. Although the speed of this phenomenon is worthy of attention, some supporters of science want this process to be faster.
Ali Gazni, Forough Rahimi
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Systematic searching aims to find all possibly relevant research from multiple sources, the basis for an unbiased and comprehensive evidence base. Along with bibliographic databases, systematic reviewers use a variety of additional methods to minimise ...
N. Haddaway +2 more
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Citation-based clustering of publications using CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer [PDF]
Clustering scientific publications in an important problem in bibliometric research. We demonstrate how two software tools, CitNetExplorer and VOSviewer, can be used to cluster publications and to analyze the resulting clustering solutions ...
Nees Jan van Eck, L. Waltman
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Global citation inequality is on the rise
Significance By analyzing a global sample of 4 million authors and 26 million scientific papers, this study finds that the top 1% most-cited scientists have increased their cumulative citation shares from 14 to 21% between 2000 and 2015 and that the Gini
M. W. Nielsen, J. Andersen
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A reverse engineering approach to the suppression of citation biases reveals universal properties of citation distributions [PDF]
The large amount of information contained in bibliographic databases has recently boosted the use of citations, and other indicators based on citation numbers, as tools for the quantitative assessment of scientific research.
A Schubert +43 more
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Massive covidization of research citations and the citation elite
Massive scientific productivity accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the citation impact of COVID-19 publications relative to all scientific work published in 2020-2021 and assessed the impact on scientist citation profiles.
J. Ioannidis +4 more
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Citation indices are tools used by the academic community for research and research evaluation which aggregate scientific literature output and measure scientific impact by collating citation counts.
J. M. Nicholson +7 more
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Why data citation isn't working, and what to do about it
We describe a system that automatically generates from a curated database a collection of short conventional publications—citation summaries—that describe the contents of various components of the database.
P. Buneman +7 more
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