RESEARCH FUNCTIONALITY AND ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: GAMING WITH ALTMETRICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE

This paper aims at introducing and testing the novel measures of research functionality and efficiency from the point of view of internationalization of academic publishing and introduction of global research career paths in the digital epoch. We analyse the recent trends in research productivity an...

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Published in:Economics & sociology 2018-01, Vol.11 (4), p.306-316
Main Authors: Strielkowski, Wadim, Chigisheva, Oksana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
academic publishing
Author productivity
Bibliometrics
career development
Careers
Citation indexes
Classification
Digital libraries
Digital technology
Efficiency
Electronic information storage and retrieval
Globalization
Higher Education
ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Impact factors
Indexing services
Information science
Informetrics
Interest groups
internationalization
Internet
Internet resources
Library and Information Science
Literature reviews
Medical libraries
Productivity
Publishing industry
research productivity
Researchers
Scholarly publishing
Science
Scientific Life
Scientists
Scientometrics
Social networks
Social sciences
Specialists
Strategic management
Subscriptions
Sustainable development
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Summary:This paper aims at introducing and testing the novel measures of research functionality and efficiency from the point of view of internationalization of academic publishing and introduction of global research career paths in the digital epoch. We analyse the recent trends in research productivity and academic publishing and scrutinize the novelties such as PlumX and Publons. Moreover, we tackle the issue of gaming with altmetrics using new digital technologies. Apart from that, we focus on the world's two most prestigious journal indexation databases, Scopus and Web of Science, and demonstrate how academic productivity might differ across academic fields and countries using their data and analytical tools. Our results might be helpful and useful in finding connections and links between research functionality, efficiency and classifications of academic productivity yielded in published research output (such as the number of papers, books, or book chapters calibrated by the impact factor (IF) or Scopus journal ranking (SJR)). The outcomes of our research would be of a special importance for bibliometricians, librarians, research policy specialists, and other global research, education, and academic stakeholders.
ISSN:2071-789X
2306-3459
DOI:10.14254/2071-789X.2018/11-4/20