Mendeley reader counts for US computer science conference papers and journal articles

被引：16

作者：

Thelwall, Mike ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Wolverhampton, Stat Cybermetr Res Grp, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, England

来源：

QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES | 2020年 / 1卷 / 01期

关键词：

altmetrics; Mendeley; scientometrics; computer science; computing; conference papers; SOCIAL BOOKMARKING; CITATION ANALYSIS; IMPACT; INFORMATION; INDICATORS; LIBRARY; WEB; DISTRIBUTIONS; METRICS; LEVEL;

D O I：

10.1162/qss_a_00010

中图分类号：

G25 [图书馆学、图书馆事业]; G35 [情报学、情报工作];

学科分类号：

1205 ; 120501 ;

摘要：

Although bibliometrics are normally applied to journal articles when used to support research evaluations, conference papers are at least as important in fast-moving computing-related fields. It is therefore important to assess the relative advantages of citations and altmetrics for computing conference papers to make an informed decision about which, if any, to use. This paper compares Scopus citations with Mendeley reader counts for conference papers and journal articles that were published between 1996 and 2018 in 11 computing fields and that had at least one US author. The data showed high correlations between Scopus citation counts and Mendeley reader counts in all fields and most years, but with few Mendeley readers for older conference papers and few Scopus citations for new conference papers and journal articles. The results therefore suggest that Mendeley reader counts have a substantial advantage over citation counts for recently published conference papers due to their greater speed, but are unsuitable for older conference papers.

引用

页码：347 / 359

页数：13

共 57 条

[1] Assessing the varying level of impact measurement accuracy as a function of the citation window length [J].

Abramo, Giovanni ;

Cicero, Tindaro ;

D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea .

JOURNAL OF INFORMETRICS, 2011, 5 (04) :659-667

[2] Altmetric: enriching scholarly content with article-level discussion and metrics [J].

Adie, Euan ;

Roe, William .

LEARNED PUBLISHING, 2013, 26 (01) :11-+

[3] Do Mendeley reader counts reflect the scholarly impact of conference papers? An investigation of computer science and engineering [J].

Aduku, Kuku Joseph ;

Thelwall, Mike ;

Kousha, Kayvan .

SCIENTOMETRICS, 2017, 112 (01) :573-581

[4]

[Anonymous], 2013, Information Standards Quarterly, DOI DOI 10.3789/ISQV25NO2.2013.06

[5] Investigating Familiarity and Usage of Traditional Metrics and Altmetrics [J].

Aung, Htet Htet ;

Zheng, Han ;

Erdt, Mojisola ;

Aw, Ashley Sara ;

Sin, Sei-Ching Joanna ;

Theng, Yin-Leng .

JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2019, 70 (08) :872-887

[6] Astrophysics publications on arXiv, Scopus and Mendeley: a case study [J].

Bar-Ilan, Judit .

SCIENTOMETRICS, 2014, 100 (01) :217-225

[7] Web of Science with the Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes: the case of computer science [J].

Bar-Ilan, Judit .

SCIENTOMETRICS, 2010, 83 (03) :809-824

[8] Measuring researchers' use of scholarly information through social bookmarking data: A case study of BibSonomy [J].

Borrego, Angel ;

Fry, Jenny .

JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE, 2012, 38 (03) :297-308

[9] Do "altmetrics" correlate with citations? Extensive comparison of altmetric indicators with citations from a multidisciplinary perspective [J].

Costas, Rodrigo ;

Zahedi, Zohreh ;

Wouters, Paul .

JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2015, 66 (10) :2003-2019

[10] Academic social bookmarking: An empirical analysis of Connotea users [J].

Du, Helen S. ;

Chu, Samuel K. W. ;

Gorman, Gary E. ;

Siu, Felix L. C. .

LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH, 2014, 36 (01) :49-58

← 1 2 3 4 5 6 →