Visibility and Citation Impact

Citation data: the wrong impact?

Citation entropy and research impact estimation

A new indicator, a real valued s-index, is suggested to characterize a quality and impact of the scientific research output. It is expected to be at least as useful as the notorious h-index, at the same time avoiding some its obvious drawbacks. Sound, sound your trumpets and beat your drums! Here it is, an impossible thing performed: a single integer number characterizes both productivity and q...

SciELO Citation Index and Web of Science: Distinctions in the Visibility of Regional

In this study we compare the visibility and performance of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Science in terms of its presence in the core collection indexes included in the Web of Science (WoS) —Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index—and the Scielo Citation Index (SciELO CI)—which was recently integrated into the WoS platform. The ...

Disentangling Visibility and Self-Promotion Bias in the arXiv:astro-ph Positional Citation Effect

We established in an earlier study that articles listed at or near the top of the daily arXiv:astro-ph mailings receive on average significantly more citations than articles further down the list. In our earlier work we were not able to decide whether this positional citation effect was due to author selfpromotion of intrinsically more citable papers or whether papers are cited more often simpl...

Striving for improved visibility and increased citation through coverage by PubMed Central (PMC)

During the Year 2013 Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences achieved yet another landmark when it managed to be covered by PubMed Central with the result that now all the manuscripts published in the journal effective January 2013 are now accessible through this important global database i.e. PubMed Central. It will ensure that the contributions by the authors have increased visibility and reader...