Currently, one of the most pressing questions in science communication is what impact does participating in these kind of activities have on individual scientists. These impacts are difficult to ...

Citation counts feel like scientific success, but the evidence shows they mislead more than they inform. Here’s what actually ...

Researchers have long suspected that review papers poach citations from the original papers they cite. A new analysis of millions of journal articles shows that certain review papers do indeed draw ...

The United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council (MRC) - the equivalent of Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council - recently released its 2014-15 economic impact report, details of ...

Academics publishing in particular fields of chemistry or neuroscience are virtually guaranteed to be cited after five years, but more than three-quarters of papers in literary theory or the ...

Citation analysis (also referred as citation tracking) is “the study of the relationship between and among the authors of texts, mainly for the purpose of identifying relevance and influence ...

Writing a research paper is one thing. Getting the citations right? That can feel like another task altogether. But it doesn’t have to be hard. Once you know how to handle citations, the whole process ...

The influence of academic papers is quantified by the number of citations, which is the number of times a paper is cited by other papers. The scientific journal Nature has pointed out that 'Japanese ...