Article
Education & Educational Research
Jenny J. Lee, John P. Haupt
Summary: Despite the tense geopolitical climate, countries increased their proportion of international collaboration and open-access publications during the pandemic. However, not all countries engaged more globally. Countries that have been more impacted by the crisis and those with relatively lower GDPs tended to participate more in scientific globalism than their counterparts.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lukas Gienapp, Wolfgang Kircheis, Bjarne Sievers, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast
Summary: We introduce the Webis-STEREO-21 dataset, a large collection of Scientific Text Reuse in Open-access publications, consisting of 91 million cases of reused text passages from 4.2 million unique open-access publications. The dataset covers a wide range of reuse types, from overlapping words to near-duplicate publications, and provides comprehensive metadata for contextualizing each case. It addresses the shortcomings of previous datasets on scientific writing and allows for qualitative and quantitative analysis of text reuse in science.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Elena Mazzalai, Federica Turatto, Corrado De Vito
Summary: This study investigates the gender gap in scientific research on COVID-19 in Italy during the initial months of the pandemic. The results reveal a low prevalence of female authors, both as first and last authors.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Editorial Material
Environmental Sciences
Martyn P. Clark, Charles H. Luce, Amir AghaKouchak, Wouter Berghuijs, Cedric H. David, Qingyun Duan, Shemin Ge, Ilja van Meerveld, Chunmiao Zheng, Marc B. Parlange, Scott W. Tyler
Summary: This commentary discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with transitioning Water Resources Research to a Gold open access publication model, including a review of open access publishing models, community input, and the path forward for AGU leadership. The decision to switch to open access is framed by a mix of finances and values, with the challenge of defining payment methods and improving affordability, along with increasing the extent of open and accessible science. The next steps for the community involve analyzing the financial feasibility of different cost models and balancing the financial burden of open access with the desire to advance open science further.
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Ronald Rousseau, Carlos Garcia-Zorita, Elias Sanz-Casado
Summary: The goal of this investigation is to examine the impact of external influences, particularly COVID-19, on research production. The study collected data from the Web of Science and compared expected data based on past performance with actual observations. The findings indicated a significant increase in the number of articles and reviews published in 2021, particularly in the fields of life sciences and biomedicine. The study also highlighted a significant decline in collaboration between China and the USA, suggesting geopolitical tensions as an external influence on research productivity. While the study contributes to the science of science, its limitations include the use of a single database, focusing only on regular articles and reviews, employing a whole counting approach, and examining a specific year.
JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Goran Muric, Kristina Lerman, Emilio Ferrara
Summary: Results: The study found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a decrease in the number of publications by female authors in the biomedical field, particularly in papers related to COVID-19 research. The gender disparities became even more apparent when disaggregated by country, up to 35% in some cases.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Craig S. Mayer, Vojtech Huser
Summary: The study aims to develop a data science approach to identify and analyze publications linked to COVID-19 clinical studies and generate a prioritized list of these publications for efficient understanding of the state of COVID-19 clinical research. The researchers conducted searches on ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed and identified a large number of articles related to COVID-19 studies. They developed criteria to prioritize these articles.
BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Keng-Chi Chang, William R. Hobbs, Margaret E. Roberts, Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld
Summary: Crisis motivates people to seek more information, and in the case of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, individuals were able to bypass censorship to access international news and political content that were typically blocked. Comparisons to other countries affected by early outbreaks suggest that people who are normally blocked from accessing information may disproportionately access censored information during a crisis, leading to evaluations of the government based on both current events and censored history.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Caroline V. Wagner, Xiaojing Cai, Yi Zhang, Caroline Fry, Alberto Baccini
Summary: The emergence of the novel coronavirus in late 2019 had a significant impact on the community of coronavirus researchers. In 2020, there was a 20-fold increase in coronavirus-related publications compared to the previous two years, with 130,000 more researchers publishing on the topic. The United States, the United Kingdom, and China were the leaders in coronavirus research before the pandemic, and their dominance continued in 2020, accounting for 50% of all papers and over 60% of citations. China initially took the lead in COVID-19 research but saw a decline in production and international participation throughout the year. In contrast, Europe started slowly but increased its contributions during the year. The proportion of internationally collaborative publications decreased, while single-authored publications increased. The number of COVID-related publications for all nations, including China, closely matched the outbreak of COVID-19 cases. Lower-income nations had minimal participation in COVID-19 research in 2020. The topic maps of internationally collaborative work revealed the emergence of patient care and public health clusters, which were previously absent in coronavirus research prior to 2020. These findings support the idea of global science as a self-organizing system based on reputation.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Rafiye Ciftciler, Ibrahim C. Haznedaroglu, Abdurrahman Tufan, Mehmet Akif Ozturk
Summary: The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 poses a major threat to global public health, with COVID-19 affecting countries worldwide. Research on COVID-19 in Turkey is ongoing, with the virus showing genetic similarities to other coronaviruses. Despite various suggested drugs for managing COVID-19, the exact treatment has not yet been determined.
TURKISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Weishu Liu, Xuping Huangfu, Haifeng Wang
Summary: With the rapid global spread of COVID-19, scientists from various disciplines quickly responded to this public health emergency. Through a large-scale investigation using citation data, this study empirically confirms the citation advantage of COVID-19-related papers. More than 8% of COVID-19-related papers published during 2020 and 2021 were identified as highly cited papers, which is significantly higher than the global benchmark of 1%. The study also demonstrates the citation advantage of COVID-19-related papers across different categories, countries, and journal impact factors. The implications of this citation advantage on bibliometric indicators, such as journal impact factor, are discussed.
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Medicinal
Daniel Korn, Vera Pervitsky, Tesia Bobrowski, Vinicius M. Alves, Charles Schmitt, Chris Bizon, Nancy Baker, Rada Chirkova, Artem Cherkasov, Eugene Muratov, Alexander Tropsha
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated research on drug candidates and biological targets for SARS-COV-2 infection, leading to the development of COKE, a web application that extracts essential drug-target relationships from COVID-19 literature. Utilizing ontological tagging and lookup routines, COKE identified a large number of drug-protein pairs and has the potential to aid in drug repurposing efforts against SARS-CoV-2.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
(2021)
Article
Management
Sandra Rousseau, Giuseppe Catalano, Cinzia Daraio
Summary: This paper analyzes the issue of monetary valuation of scientific publications and highlights the differences in approach between scholars and policymakers. It emphasizes the need for further research and discussion on the topic to address the limitations and benefits of different valuation methods.
Article
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Sandra Lopez-Verges, Bernardo Urbani, David Fernandez Rivas, Sandeep Kaur-Ghumaan, Anna K. Coussens, Felix Moronta-Barrios, Suraj Bhattarai, Leila Niamir, Velia Siciliano, Andreea Molnar, Amanda Weltman, Meghnath Dhimal, Shalini S. Arya, Karen J. Cloete, Almas Taj Awan, Stefan Kohler, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Yoko Shimpuku, John Ganle, Maryam M. Matin, Justine G. Nzweundji, Abdeslam Badre, Paulina Carmona-Mora
Summary: Scientific collaborations play a crucial role in addressing common problems and building international partnerships, particularly in the context of global challenges like the current pandemic; research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated interactions across science, policy, communication, and diplomacy, benefiting disciplines directly informing the pandemic response while sidelining other scientific fields.
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Floyd Jiuyun Zhang
Summary: In a preregistered experiment, participants were randomly assigned to receive information about the endorsement of Joe Biden by the scientific journal Nature during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results suggest that this endorsement affected polarized trust in scientific expertise and caused large reductions in stated trust in Nature among Trump supporters. High-profile political endorsements by scientific publications have become common in recent years, raising concerns about backlash against the endorsing organizations and scientific expertise.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Peter Weingart, Francois van Schalkwyk, Lars Guenther
Summary: This article provides a comparative analysis of the interrelation between public perception of the COVID-19 threat, trust in governments and scientific experts, and acceptance of government decisions to mitigate the pandemic in Germany, the USA, and South Africa in 2020. The findings suggest that scientific experts and governments initially enjoyed a high level of trust and acceptance, despite uncertainties. However, trust in politicians declined as the pandemic progressed, particularly in the USA, due to politicization.
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Gabriela F. Nane, Thed N. van Leeuwen
Summary: Evaluation systems are heavily criticized for misusing bibliometric indicators, leading to a culture where academics strive to meet the expected standards. This study investigates the alignment between researchers' values and expectations with the evaluation system. Through a multiple case study, combining curriculum analysis and semi-structured interviews, the research examines how departments in Dutch universities balance their own valuation regimes with the evaluation schemes. The study proposes a model to understand the impact of discipline and career stage on the diversity of academic activities, concluding that the misalignment is not solely due to metric abuse, but also a lack of contextualized and adaptable evaluation tools.
RESEARCH EVALUATION
(2023)
Review
Communication
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Evaristo Jimenez-Contreras
Summary: This article reviews the current trends and challenges in the field of bibliometrics, covering six aspects: the explosion of databases, the inflation of metrics, its relationship to Data Science, searching for meaning, evaluative bibliometrics, and diversity and profession. The evaluation encompasses three dimensions of the bibliometrics field: technological, theoretical, and social. Finally, the article advocates for the principles of evaluative bibliometrics, balancing the power of metrics with expert judgment and science policy.
PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION
(2023)
Article
Communication
Pilar Valderrama-Baca, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Daniel Torres-Salinas
Summary: COVID-19 has had a significant impact on science, becoming a global research frontier and attracting attention from the scientometric community. This study analyzes the association between altmetric mentions of COVID-19 medical studies and their study types and level of evidence.
PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION
(2023)
Letter
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia
Article
Communication
Corlia Meyer, Francois van Schalkwyk
Summary: This study analyzes 524 newspaper articles to examine how the South African print media framed COVID-19-related news during the first two years of the pandemic. The findings reveal that three South African newspapers utilized three dominant frames to convey a sense of alarm regarding the pandemic's impact on society. However, there was no consistent framing pattern observed over the 22-month period, suggesting episodic reporting and prioritization of market demands over societal needs by the South African print media during the COVID-19 crisis.
JOURNALISM STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Esteban Romero-Frias, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado
Summary: The importance of public innovation is demonstrated through the establishment of policy labs, which serve as spaces for policy experimentation and innovation within government entities. The rise of policy labs in Europe is evident from the creation of a policy lab by the European Commission in 2016 and the publication of a report identifying policy labs and their influencers in Europe. Public innovation now relies on national and international networks, resulting in complex ecosystems involving multiple actors from countries with different administrative approaches.
QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Rodrigo Costas
Summary: This study aims to explore the analytical possibilities of Wikipedia information and provides a methodological framework and open knowledge graph for large-scale research. By comparing the features of Wikipedia pages with those of scientific publications, the similarities and differences between the two types of documents are highlighted. In addition, a dedicated data set of the English Wikipedia is built based on a relational model, and a descriptive case study is conducted to illustrate the analytical potential of the knowledge graph and its metrics.
QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas
Summary: This paper presents data on research publications and social media impact of scientists affiliated with Spanish institutions between 2016 and 2020. It also includes information on researchers whose work gained significant attention on social media and non-academic outlets. The datasets provide bibliographic metadata, subject areas, altmetric indicators, and information on researchers and their publications.
Article
Communication
Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado
Summary: This study presents a cross-country comparison of altmetric coverage between Spain and a selection of 16 countries in 22 research fields. The results show that altmetric coverage in Spain is similar to that in other countries, but it is lower in areas such as Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences.
PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACION
(2022)
