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Citations and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns: the GhoS(t)copus Project
Full text linkBackground: Scopus is a leading bibliometric database. It contains a large part of the articles cited in peer-reviewed publications . The journals included in Scopus are periodically re-evaluated to ensure they meet indexing criteria and some journals might be discontinued for 'publication concerns'. Previously published articles may remain indexed and can be cited. Their metrics have yet to be studied. This study aimed to evaluate the main features and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns, before and after their discontinuation, and to determine the extent of predatory journals among the discontinued journals. Methods: We surveyed the list of discontinued journals from Scopus (July 2019). Data regarding metrics, citations and indexing were extracted from Scopus or other scientific databases, for the journals discontinued for publication concerns. Results: A total of 317 journals were evaluated. Ninety-three percent of the journals (294/317) declared they published using an Open Access model. The subject areas with the greatest number of discontinued journals were Medicine (52/317; 16%), Agriculture and Biological Science (34/317; 11%), and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (31/317; 10%). The mean number of citations per year after discontinuation was significantly higher than before (median of difference 16.89 citations, p<0.0001), and so was the number of citations per document (median of difference 0.42 citations, p<0.0001). Twenty-two percent (72/317) were included in the Cabell's blacklist. The DOAJ currently included only 9 journals while 61 were previously included and discontinued, most for 'suspected editorial misconduct by the publisher'. Conclusions: Journals discontinued for 'publication concerns' continue to be cited despite discontinuation and predatory behaviour seemed common. These citations may influence scholars' metrics prompting artificial career advancements, bonus systems and promotion. Countermeasures should be taken urgently to ensure the reliability of Scopus metrics for the purpose of scientific assessment of scholarly publishing at both journal- and author-level
Correction for Strinzel et al., "Blacklists and Whitelists To Tackle Predatory Publishing: a Cross-Sectional Comparison and Thematic Analysis".
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
SNSF Datastory - Rising demand for funding is becoming a challenge
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<h1>Rising demand for funding is becoming a challenge</h1>
<a href="https://github.com/snsf-data/datastory_budget_demand_development#rising-demand-for-funding-is-becoming-a-challenge"></a></div>
<p><em>Demand for SNSF funding has been rising for years now. Why is this? Are more researchers applying for funding or are they submitting higher budgets? What consequences is this development having? An evaluation of internal data provides answers.</em></p>
<p><a href="https://data.snf.ch/stories/rising-demand-for-funding-is-becoming-a-challenge-en.html" rel="nofollow">English</a><br><a href="https://data.snf.ch/stories/steigende-nachfrage-nach-foerdermitteln-wird-zur-herausforderung-de.html" rel="nofollow">German</a><br><a href="https://data.snf.ch/stories/la-demande-croissante-de-fonds-devient-un-defi-fr.html" rel="nofollow">French</a></p>
<p><strong>Authors</strong>: Gabriel Okasa and Michaela Strinzel</p>
<p><strong>Publication date</strong>: 14.03.2024</p>
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<h2>Code</h2>
<a href="https://github.com/snsf-data/datastory_budget_demand_development#code"></a></div>
<p>The main code for the settings of the data story is contained the <code>main.R</code> script, while the code for the data story itself is provided in the respective Quarto documents:</p>
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<li><code>en.qmd</code>: English version of the data story</li>
<li><code>de.qmd</code>: German version of the data story</li>
<li><code>fr.qmd</code>: French version of the data story</li>
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<p>The above scripts source the functions and definitions provided in the <code>utils/</code> subdirectory:</p>
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<li><code>util_funs.R</code>: script containing utility functions for descriptive statistics and plotting</li>
<li><code>preprocess_data.R</code>: script containing data pre-processing from raw data for analysis-ready dataset</li>
<li><code>define_plot_descriptions.R</code>: script containing multi-lingual descriptions for dynamic plotting</li>
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<h2>Data description</h2>
<a href="https://github.com/snsf-data/datastory_budget_demand_development#data-description"></a></div>
<p>The data used in this data story are available in the folder <code>data</code>. The data consist of two files:</p>
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<p><code>data/data_raw.csv</code>: containing information about 76915 proposals between 2011 and 2023. Each row represents a single application. The following variables are included:</p>
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<li><code>CallDecisionYearReporting</code>: funding decision year of all applications of one call</li>
<li><code>FundingInstrumentGaLevel1</code>: top-level funding scheme hierarchy: Projects, Careers, Programmes, Infrastructure and Science Communication</li>
<li><code>FundingInstrumentGaReporting</code>: mid-level funding scheme hierarchy: e.g., Ambizione, Project funding, Spark, etc.</li>
<li><code>AmountRequested</code>: amount initially requested by the applicant (in CHF)</li>
<li><code>AmountGranted</code>: amount approved by the SNSF (in CHF)</li>
<li><code>IsApproved</code>: indicator if applications has been approved</li>
<li><code>DurationRequestedMonth</code>: Project duration requested by the applicant</li>
<li><code>TeamSize</code>: number of persons associated with the application: applicant, co-applicants and project partners</li>
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<p><code>data/data_federal.csv</code>: containing information about the yearly federal contributions to the SNSF between 2011 and 2023. Each row represents a yearly amount. The following variables are included:</p>
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<li><code>Year</code>: year of the federal contribution</li>
<li><code>FederalContribution</code>: amount contributed by the federal government to the SNSF (in billion CHF)</li>
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<p>In case of any questions, please contact: <a href="https://github.com/snsf-data/datastory_budget_demand_development/blob/main/[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.</p>
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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