Abstract Social media are being used increasingly by the science community to share research output with a wide audience and seek feedback. They also as alternatives traditional citation-based assessment of impacts scientific products even inform employment decisions in academia. One these platforms, ResearchGate, is popular application more than 20 million users who discuss products. We report...

This paper explores readership counts provided by the social reference manager Mendeley as a source for usage statistics for scientific papers, based on a sample of 1.2 million documents published in journals from the four disciplines Biomedical Research, Clinical Medicine, Health and Psychology. It is shown that the percentage of papers with at least one user on Mendeley (65.9%) as well as the...

In this study, the presence and distribution of both Mendeley readerships (usage) and Web of Science (WoS) citations for the publications published in the 43 Iranian international journals indexed in JCR have been investigated. The aim was to determine the impact, visibility and use of the publications published by the Iranian international journals in Mendeley compared to their citation impact...

Yellow Peril and other anti-East Asian themes are a recurring but rarely acknowledged feature of the oeuvre Robert A. Heinlein. Still revered by an overwhelmingly white, male ideologically libertarian readership, “Dean” American Science Fiction made extensive use threatening, hateful or contemptible images East Asians in novels that appeared from 1930s through 1960s. The contradiction between H...