The company that compiles highly influential databases on the use of scholarly papers in print has decided to gather similar information on scholarly works that are disseminated solely online, often ...

“Open citations now!” So concludes a new open letter to publishers from researchers who support making scholarly citations freely available, in the interest of better citation analysis. Advocates of ...

Online scientific databases are increasingly accessed to evaluate academic productivity. 1 However, major discrepancies among databases 2 can affect the recognition and professional advancement of ...

South America's research impact is underestimated in the main citation databases, as you suggest (Nature 510, 202–203; 2014). However, incorporating the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) ...

In today's world, researchers are requested not only to publish high quality research findings but enhance their access and discoverability. This page will provide you with various techniques and ...

More than 8,000 of the world’s most-cited scientists have at least one retraction, according to a database that links retractions to top-cited papers 1. Retracted papers had a higher number of ...

With the vast majority of scientific papers now available online, Lokman I Meho describes how the Web is allowing physicists and information providers to measure more accurately the impact of these ...

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has launched a new Scopus module that will provide metrics for articles indexed in Scopus, ...