The present study aims to analyze 1) the relationship between Citation Normalized Score of scientific publications and Article Processing Charges (APCs) Gold Open Access (OA) 2) determinants APCs. To do so, we used APCs information provided by OpenAPC database, citation scores from WoS database and, for Altmetrics, data Altmetrics.com over period 2006 2019 83,752 articles published in 4751 jour...

Last spring a faculty member asked me to find their h-index, collect the Impact Factor (IF) for all the journals in which they were published, and compile the number of citations each of their articles had received. When I presented the results, they insisted their work was more influential than what the metrics suggested. I explained why IFs for specialized journals were lower than more genera...