The Australia-Africa Universities Network, which has been running for going on three years with 10 institutions from each of the two regions, already has 16 collaborative research programmes underway in areas such as food security, mining and minerals, public sector reform, public health and education.
Interestingly, research at Murdoch University in Australia has shown that citations per paper with African co-authors is far higher than the university’s average citation per paper.
Article from University World News
Karen MacGregor 29 May 2015 Issue No:369
Showing posts with label citations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label citations. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2015
Monday, June 2, 2014
The ultimate guide to staying up-to-date on your articles’ impact
ImpactStory has just published this useful webpage on “the
services that deliver essential research impact metrics straight to your inbox,
so you can stay up to date without having to do a lot of work.”
Monday, November 5, 2012
From bibliometrics to altmetrics: A changing scholarly landscape
....librarians are in a key position to take the lead in bolstering researchers’ knowledge of current trends—and concerns—in the new art and science impact measurement......
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Guidelines needed to prevent impact-factor abuse
Citations play a big part in assessing a journal's quality but what
happens when many of those citations come from papers authored by that
journal's editorial board? Paul Peters considers the need to establish guidelines for appropriate citation practices
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Open Access, A2K & Scholarly Communication (LibGuide from Denise Nicholson at Wits)
This LibGuide provides useful information about the Open Access
Movement, open access publishing and scholarly communication trends.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Friday, August 1, 2008
FREE ACCESS TO SCIENCE PAPERS FOUND NOT TO INCREASE CITATIONS
FREE ACCESS TO SCIENCE PAPERS FOUND NOT TO INCREASE CITATIONS:
Randomly selected papers that were made freely available
online were cited slightly less often than papers that were
not, a study described in "BMJ" found.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/08/4070n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medi
um=en
user name: rulibrary
password: ru2007
Randomly selected papers that were made freely available
online were cited slightly less often than papers that were
not, a study described in "BMJ" found.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/08/4070n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medi
um=en
user name: rulibrary
password: ru2007
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