Add to ORKGIn the context of everyday research assessment citation counts are often taken as a simple indicator of the influence of any particular paper. However, all citations are not the same and can be deployed to achieve different ends. Commenting on a recent study of how researchers across 15 academic fields understand the influence of the work cited in their research Eamon Duede shows how citation plays a role both in indicating and shaping the influence of research papers
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Many scholars are encouraged to focus on the quality not the quantity of their publications, the rat...
Arbaugh, Fornaciari and Hwang (2016) use citation analysis – with Google Scholar as their source of ...
A recent study has revealed widespread unethical behaviour in academic research. Allen Wilhite focus...
For many years, academia has relied on citation count as the main way to measure the impact or impor...
Drawing on their recent analysis of journals in the field of Higher Education Studies, which shows t...
Citing your own work when publishing a paper may be seen as a way of promoting yourself in academia,...
AI is forecast to become increasingly central to many aspects of life and work. The same trends can ...
The use of citation metrics in academic hiring and promotion decisions was intended as a response to...
Results of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework have, in some quarters, been interpreted as eviden...
The drive to publish papers has created a hyper-competitive research environment in which researcher...
The impact of academic research, particularly on policy and the private sector, is an increasingly i...
Funding for research communication is a growing feature of grant applications and whilst digital sch...
Research assessment exercises, such as the REF ostensibly serve to evaluate research, but they also ...
Outside of specific institutional and organizational settings discussions about ‘impact’ often desce...
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Many scholars are encouraged to focus on the quality not the quantity of their publications, the rat...
Arbaugh, Fornaciari and Hwang (2016) use citation analysis – with Google Scholar as their source of ...
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