This paper describes the situation of high-quality journals in Brazil and Spain, with emphasis on the distribution models used. It presents the general characteristics (age, type of publisher and theme) and analyses the distribution model by studying the type of format (print or digital), the type of access (open access or subscription) and the technology platform used. The 549 journals analyze...

Informing Science is a young transdisciplinary science. the essential characteristics of which were defined fifteen years ago. The journal Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (InformSciJ) is the flagship journal of transdisciplinary Informing Science. A study about the publication’s influence and readership could be pertinent to better understanding the p...

This study examines the differences between Scopus and Web of Science in the citation counting, citation ranking, and h-index of 22 top human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers from EQUATOR—a large British Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration project. Results indicate that Scopus provides significantly more coverage of HCI literature than Web of Science, primarily due to coverage of rel...

This study analyzes research articles about open access (OA) indexed by the Scopus database, published from 2001 to 2015, in order to: (a) propose a categorization scheme about OA; (b) categorize the scientific production about OA; and (c) identify research trends on OA through disciplines at international level over time. The authors used descriptive statistical methods and deductive content a...

This paper discusses the Indian chemical research activity during 1987 to 2007 using Scopus database. It tries to quantify the national contribution to world efforts, and identify areas of relative strengths and weaknesses. It also models out the trend of growth in the output of Indian chemical research to world as a whole and in sub-fields of chemical science. These details have been discussed...

We model Science and Technology (S&T) systems as complex systems and propose to use the mathematical tools developed within the spin-glasses literature to evaluate similarity within systems and between systems in a unified manner. Our measure is based on the ‘overlap’ of disciplinary profiles of a set of S&T systems. The investigation of the distribution of the overlaps provides useful insights...

The last few years have seen the emergence of several Open Access (OA) options in scholarly communication, which can broadly be grouped into two areas referred to as gold and green roads. Several recent studies showed how big the extent of OA is, but there have been few studies showing impact of OA in the visibility of journals covering all scientific fields and geographical regions. This resea...

Predicting future high impact academic papers is of benefit to a range of stakeholders, including governments, universities, academics, and investors. Being able to predict ‘the next big thing’ allows the allocation of resources to fields where these rapid developments are occurring. This paper develops a new method for predicting a paper’s future impact using features of the paper’s neighbourh...

Policy makers and managers sometimes assess the share of research produced by a group (country, department, institution). This takes the form of the percentage of publications in a journal, field or broad area that has been published by the group. This quantity is affected by essentially random influences that obscure underlying changes over time and differences between groups. A model of resea...