Relationship between Downloads and Citation and the Influence of Language
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Download indicators represent a great potential due to the high amount of download data that can be collected that can provide a great statistical significance. The relationship between citation and downloads at journal level and the influence of language on it is studied with the data of Scopus (for citation) and ScienceDirect (for downloads). The results show that the use of downloads as prediction of the citation, is limited, as in the early years is when it obtained less significance. The relationship between downloads and citations is also different in different areas. In Francophone regions the downloads of English language journals is proportionately greatly reduced with respect to their citation. There seems to be a part of the citation impact of the non-English language journals invisible in Scopus, which make the number of downloads proportionally greater than citations. This has its effect on the lack of correlation between the downloads and citations in the non-English language journals. Conference Topic Scientometrics Indicators: Criticism and new developments (Topic 1) and Old and New Data Sources for Scientometric Studies: Coverage, Accuracy and Reliability (Topic 2).
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