TY - CHAP
T1 - A comparison of citation scores and Web of Science usage counts for Russian science papers, 2006-19
AU - Markusova, Valentina
AU - Lewison, Grant
AU - Zolotova, Anna
AU - Libkind, Ilya
AU - Libkind, Alexander
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 20-07-00014 and 20-010-00179) for financial support, and to Clarivate Analytics for the opportunity to use their data.
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© 2021 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2021. All rights reserved.
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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We examined research papers from the Russian Federation during the 14 years, 2006-19, in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biomedicine, that were covered in the Web of Science (WoS) Science Citation Index - Extended. We saw a modest expansion in physics, chemistry, and mathematics which are traditional Russian strengths. However, following directives from VV Putin, biomedical research is now also being encouraged. We compared the mean numbers of Total Citations (TC) to papers from different years with their usage counts in the WoS. U1 shows the numbers of usages in the last 180 days, and U2 gives the count since 2013. These "altmetrics" provide an alternative means for research evaluation, and can give an indication of the papers' interest and utility to other researchers earlier than citation counts. Usage counts (U2) are mostly higher than TC for recent years. Russian physics papers are the most cited, but chemistry papers receive more usage counts. Biomedical research has expanded, more than the other subject areas of our study, but it is still not well cited.
AB - We examined research papers from the Russian Federation during the 14 years, 2006-19, in chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biomedicine, that were covered in the Web of Science (WoS) Science Citation Index - Extended. We saw a modest expansion in physics, chemistry, and mathematics which are traditional Russian strengths. However, following directives from VV Putin, biomedical research is now also being encouraged. We compared the mean numbers of Total Citations (TC) to papers from different years with their usage counts in the WoS. U1 shows the numbers of usages in the last 180 days, and U2 gives the count since 2013. These "altmetrics" provide an alternative means for research evaluation, and can give an indication of the papers' interest and utility to other researchers earlier than citation counts. Usage counts (U2) are mostly higher than TC for recent years. Russian physics papers are the most cited, but chemistry papers receive more usage counts. Biomedical research has expanded, more than the other subject areas of our study, but it is still not well cited.
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M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85112641854
T3 - 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2021
SP - 759
EP - 770
BT - 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2021
A2 - Glanzel, Wolfgang
A2 - Heeffer, Sarah
A2 - Chi, Pei-Shan
A2 - Rousseau, Ronald
PB - International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
T2 - 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, ISSI 2021
Y2 - 12 July 2021 through 15 July 2021
ER -