We are taking as our foundational assumption that effective information retrieval tasks in the broad domain of biomedical literature must address the singular nature of scholarly communication and the effect this has upon a document corpus. The corpus for a typical TREC task is comprised of a temporal sequence of news documents exhibiting little, if any, internal structure. Reduction of a docum...

Introduction The concept of the core of documents had originally been introduced in connection of cocitation analysis (Small 1973). The term core documents has later been re-introduced in the context of bibliographic coupling (BC; see Glänzel & Czerwon, 1996) and hybrid BC and text based similarities (Glänzel & Thijs, 2011) in order to identify strongly interlinked papers that form important no...

In this paper, we respond to five rebuttals to Kingsley and Kennan (2015). Four researchers in the information systems field and a university library director of research infrastructure provided these rebuttals. Almost without exception, the rebuttals from the information systems researchers take an analytical approach to the question of scholarly communication in their field. However, in under...

Web publishing and its technical possibilities, as well as the open access movement that has accompanied it, have resulted in a number of tendencies with mixed implications for scholarly communication. This article examines the impact of these changes in the field of the African studies, where the North-South divide in scientific publishing poses an additional challenge to the issues at stake. ...

Peer review is widely viewed as an essential step for ensuring scientific quality of a work and is a cornerstone of scholarly publishing. On the other hand, the actors involved in the publishing process are often driven by incentives which may, and increasingly do, undermine the quality of published work, especially in the presence of unethical conduits. In this work we investigate the feasibil...

tend to get nervous when i hear talk of paradigm shifts. The term itself has been debased through inaccurate popular use—even turning into a joke on The Simpsons—but its original role in Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions [1] is worth revisiting as we examine the idea of a Fourth Paradigm and its impact on scholarly communication [2]. Kuhn's model describes a world of science in ...

Bibliometric evaluations of research outputs in the social sciences and humanities are challenging due to limitations associated with Web of Science data; however background literature shows that scholars are interested in stimulating improvements. We give special attention to book reviews processed by Web of Science history and literature journals, focusing on two types: Type I (i.e., referenc...

Social media is increasingly used in higher education settings by researchers, students and institutions. Whether it is researchers conversing with other researchers, or universities seeking to communicate to a wider audience, social media platforms serve as a tool for users to communicate and increase visibility. Scholarly communication in social media and investigations about social media met...

The greatest number of open access journals (OAJs) is found in the sciences and their influence is growing. However, there are only a few studies on the acceptance and thereby integration of these OAJs in the scholarly communication system. Even fewer studies provide insight into the differences across disciplines. This study is an analysis of the citing behaviour in journals within three scien...

This article represents a literature review that has two parts. Her is talking about the first part: scholarly communication model. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest both in scholarly communication as a research area and in the application of bibliometrics as a research method. This article is a compilation of scholarly communication models at the intersection of scholarly...