Despite contradicting evidence that open access (OA) articles might have greater citation advantage, there is less case studies in developing countries showing whether their global publication availability pattern advantages scientific impact metrics. Also, by addition of altmetrics to the world scientific evaluation system it is less known how different research access channels such as OA publ...

WPSAR Vol 6, No 2, 2015 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.2.008 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 1 a WPSAR Editorial Team, Division of Health Security and Emergencies, World Health Organization Regional Offi ce for the Western Pacifi c, Manila, Philippines. b Emerging Disease Surveillance and Response Unit, Division of Health Security and Emergencies, World Health Organization Regional Offi ce for the Western ...

We want to summarize some established results on periodic surfaces which are minimal or have constant mean curvature, along with some recent results. We will do this from a mathematical point of view with a general readership in mind.

Medical research is highly funded and often expensive and so is particularly important to evaluate effectively. Nevertheless, citation counts may accrue too slowly for use in some formal and informal evaluations. It is therefore important to investigate whether alternative metrics could be used as substitutes. This article assesses whether one such altmetric, Mendeley readership counts, correla...

Little detailed information is known about who reads research articles and the contexts in which research articles are read. Using data about people who register in Mendeley as readers of articles, this paper explores different types of users of Clinical Medicine, Engineering and Technology, Social Science, Physics and Chemistry papers inside and outside academia. The majority of readers for al...

This brief paper gives an example of statistical stylistic experimentation and argues for more informed measures of variation and choice and more informed measures of readership analysis to be able to posit dimensions of textual variation usefully.

This paper proposes an examination of recent (published since the late 1960s) editions of nineteenth-century Brazilian and Spanish American novels with a considerable component of romanticism. It focuses upon the way in which editors, translators, preface-writers, and especially illustrators, seek to communicate to current-day readers the significance and worth of novels written under the sway ...

Weblogs have emerged as a popular form of online communication, driven by an array of personal, professional and social motivations. These websites provide tools for interaction, but designed as a broadcast medium, the depth and breadth of personal relationships between authors are not immediately observable. Hypertext links made between blogs have been described as conversation, affiliation, o...