Main outcome measures Citation bias, amplification, and invention, and their effects on determining authority.
Those relevant to us here include: a) the fact that video, audio and other examples cannot be embedded in hard-copy monographs; b) text-mining options and easy ways of measuring citation levels and impact rates are absent; c) the fact that hard copy monographs are not 'living' documents.
In June the Times Higher Education ranked Macquarie University as the top university in Australia and the 14th in the world for research in environmental science and ecology as measured by citations for each researcher.
But Newsweek's star has been in rapid descent since then, and now it barely cracks the list of the 100 most influential news organizations, as measured by citations of their reporting in Google and Google News.
"We think there are other mechanisms that can decide those things," he continued, adding that in addition to a much quicker submission and peer review process, PLoS One also offered researchers a chance to see how their findings were used after publication by building in tools to measure downloads, citations and even recommendations on social networks.
But does prominence in the Twittersphere translate into scientific impact as measured by citations?
The fact that you can see it even in such a crude measure as citations shows that there are consequences".
We ask whether policies designed to encourage return migration of scientists increase knowledge diffusion to and from home countries, as measured by citations to articles in STEM journals.
It's a clever and concise way of capturing two key pieces of information: the number of publications and their influence, as measured by citations in other peer-reviewed articles.
Such measures as citation impact, levels of funding, and awards, when applied on a per capita basis, he argues, would provide a more accurate picture of the current research landscape.
