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Title
Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation
Author(s)
Ferrer-Sapena, AntoniaAleixandre-Benavent, RafaelPeset, FernandaSanchez-Perez, Enrique A.
Publisher
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
Publication Year
2018-12-30
Abstract
This article shows an approach to the study of two fundamental aspects of the prepublication of scientific manuscripts in specialized repositories (arXiv). The first refers to the size of the interaction of "standard papers" in journals appearing in the Web of Science (WoS)-now Clarivate Analytics-and "non-standard papers" (manuscripts appearing in arXiv). Specifically, we analyze the citations found in the WoS to articles in arXiv. The second aspect is how publication in arXiv affects the citation count of authors. The question is whether or not prepublishing in arXiv benefits authors from the point of view of increasing their citations, or rather produces a dispersion, which would diminish the relevance of their publications in evaluation processes. Data have been collected from arXiv, the websites of the journals, Google Scholar, and WoS following a specific ad hoc procedure. The number of citations in journal articles published in WoS to preprints in arXiv is not large. We show that citation counts from regular papers and preprints using different sources (arXiv, the journal's website, WoS) give completely different results. This suggests a rather scattered picture of citations that could distort the citation count of a given article against the author's interest. However, the number of WoS references to arXiv preprints is small, minimizing this potential negative effect.
Keyword
preprint; research evaluation; arXiv; impact; bibliometric analysis; citation
Journal Title
Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice;Volume 6 Issue 4
ISSN
2287-4577
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Type
Article
URI
https://repository.kisti.re.kr/handle/10580/13536
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