the creation of digital archives at research institutions and by key subject centres of excellence, and the business of … journal publishing. Design/methodology/approach – Relevant publications, including articles published in refereed books and … strategic challenge facing all stakeholders in the scholarly communication industry in future. Research limitations …

“quality” of journals. More specifically, the paper argues the need for a new range of standardized indicators based on reader … suggested here would radically shift the centre of gravity in bibliometrics research from the author to the reader. This remains …

University of Kashmir. A pre‐defined, closed‐ended, 14‐item questionnaire was distributed among 84 research scholars. The … faculties was confined to four scholars, as only four research scholars were enrolled in the Department of Psychology. Findings … via search engines. About 21 per cent remarked above 60 per cent relevancy of OA content related to their research need …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the publications of, and the citations to, the current staff of 19 … Malaysian research performance. Design/methodology/approach – This paper searches citation of the Scopus and Web of Science … universities having only a teaching function. More of the departments' publications were identified in Scopus than in Web of …

journals get a high JDF. This property reduces the utility of the JDF as a tool for evaluation of research influence. The paper …

location are key determinants of author attitudes and any policy response should avoid “one‐size‐fits‐all” solutions. Research … enormous challenges and opportunities as content increasingly migrates to the web. The value of this research is that it …

Purpose – This research paper aims to investigate the internationalization and visibility of Iranian scientific …

Purpose – This research aims to study the state of online resources cited in scholarly library and information science … knowledge of this field as well as quality of such literature for web content providers and publishers, authors and researchers.  …

, within its relevant biomedical sub‐field. Design/methodology/approach – Publications in the multiple sclerosis sub‐field for … 1988‐1999 in the Research Outputs Database constitute the data‐set. Proxy measures, based on funding acknowledgement counts … visibility, research orientation and research impact. The results are discussed within the frame of an evolutionary economics of …