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Being a "Highly Cited Researcher" has gone from a sign of having impact as a researcher to a potential indicator of misconduct.

"Manipulations have been so obvious and large that, in 2024, over 2,000 researchers were removed from a HCR list containing some 6,600 names." - Lauranne Chaignon

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

#ResearchImpact #HighlyCitedResearchers #Bibliometrics #Scientometrics #ResearchAssessment #Citations #CitationManipulation #CitationScience #ScientificMisconduct #ImpactOfSocialSciences

#citations #ResearchAssessment #scientificmisconduct #researchimpact #HighlyCitedResearchers #bibliometrics #scientometrics #citationmanipulation #citationscience #impactofsocialsciences

Counting citations hasn't been a reliable measure of scientific impact for a while, especially on platforms like Google Scholar that compile info from random documents. Hyper-authorship, predatory journals, etc have all contributed to the problem.

This preprint just drives home how important it is to measure scientific impact more carefully and without reliance on automated metrics

Google Scholar is manipulatable

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

#science #academia #publishing #citations


Google Scholar is manipulatable

Citations are widely considered in scientists' evaluation. As such, scientists may be incentivized to inflate their citation counts.
arXiv.org
#science #publishing #academia #citations

New study: "We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their #code and that there has been no significant improvement over time, but we also find evidence that code sharing can considerably improve #citations, particularly when combined with #OpenAccess publication."
researchsquare.com/article/rs-…

#Impact #OACA #OpenSource #Reproducibility

Code sharing increases citations, but remains uncommon

Biologists increasingly rely on computer code, reinforcing the importance of published code for transparency, reproducibility, training, and a basis for further work.
www.researchsquare.com
#opensource #Code #OpenAccess #reproducibility #impact #citations #oaca

New study: "Are #citations becoming more concentrated in a small number of articles? Or have recent geopolitical and technical changes in science led to more decentralized distributions?" Answer: It's the second, thanks to "a decline in uncited articles, which, in turn, can be attributed to the growing significance of #Asia and #Europe."
arxiv.org/abs/2306.09911

Uncited articles and their effect on the concentration of citations

Empirical evidence demonstrates that citations received by scholarly publications follow a pattern of preferential attachment, resulting in a power-law distribution.
arXiv.org
#Europe #asia #citations

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