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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0179.v1

Telegram Channels and Bots: A Ranking of Spanish Media Oulets

Víctor Herrero-Solana, Carlos Castro-Castro

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Telegram; media; Spain; channels; bots; fake channels; rankings

Online: 12 July 2022 (09:13:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0293.v1

Structure and Evolution of Sensor Ecosystem to Forecast Emerging Scientific and Technological Directions

Mario Coccia, Saeed Roshani, Melika Mosleh

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: sensor technology; sensor research; network analysis; technological trajectories; technological change; scientific change; scientific development; wireless sensor networks; fiber optic sensors; biosensors

Online: 21 June 2022 (10:36:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0200.v1

Do Not Use I.F. for Scientific Value Estimation

Lev Klebanov, Yulia Kuvaeva, Zeev (Vladimir) Volkovich

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: citation distribution; impact factor distribution; essential randomness; Sibuya distribution.

Online: 21 April 2022 (09:37:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0016.v1

University Libraries of Pakistan, Application of Social Media to Market Library Sources and Services

Anwar Muhammad, Tang Zhewei

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: University libraries; marketing; library sources and services; Social media; Facebook; Whatsapp

Online: 1 March 2022 (11:05:33 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202110.0314.v1

Competitive Ranking of Six Major Tea-Related Research Organizations Through Bibliometric Analysis of Publications and Patents

Huimin Zhao, Jingjing Wang, Xiaowei Yang, Xingping Xiong

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: tea; competitiveness analysis; bibliometrics

Online: 21 October 2021 (14:14:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0330.v1

New Directions in Sensor Research: A Bibliometric Analysis for Detecting Emerging Research Fields and New Technological Trajectories

Mario Coccia, Saeed Roshani, Melika Mosleh

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Sensors; Sensor research; Research fields; Technological trajectories; Biosensors; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor network; Evolution of science; Dynamics of science; Scientific development

Online: 20 September 2021 (12:19:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0367.v1

Differences in Citation Patterns across Areas, Article Types and Age Groups of Researchers

Marcelo Mendoza

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Citation patterns; Age groups of researchers; Types of publications.

Online: 17 August 2021 (15:09:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202105.0540.v1

The Reality of the Application of Intellectual Property Legislation on Digital Information Resources at the Libraries of Public Universities in Jordan (Dissertation)

Afaf A. Abu Sirhan

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Intellectual Property Legislations; Public University Libraries; Jordan

Online: 24 May 2021 (08:46:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0770.v1

Representation of Non-Western Cultural Knowledge on Wikipedia: The Case of the Visual Arts

Martin Poulter, Waqās Ahmed

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Wikipedia, knowledge equity, Wikimedia, open culture, visual arts, cultural bias

Online: 29 April 2021 (09:16:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0624.v1

A Bibliometric Analysis of COVID-19 Research

Yuh-Shan Ho, Andrea Gatto

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Coronavirus; Bibliometrics; Outbreak; pandemic; Web of Science Core Collection; WoS

Online: 24 December 2020 (13:34:07 CET)

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Working Paper REVIEW

Open Bioeconomy. A Review of the Literature

Marianne Duquenne, Hélène Prost, Joachim Schöpfel, Franck Dumeignil

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: bioeconomy; open science; open access

Online: 30 October 2020 (14:45:27 CET)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0057.v5

Publishing Scientific Articles in the Digital Era

Mario Pagliaro

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: scientific publishing; scientific journals; scholarly publishing; scientific papers; open science; scientific articles

Online: 20 August 2020 (09:48:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0051.v2

World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Database: Who Needs It?

Ivan Kodvanj, Jan Homolak, Davor Virag, Vladimir Trkulja

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: COVID-19; WHO; database; systematic review; data quality

Online: 2 August 2020 (17:43:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0051.v1

World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 Database: WHO Needs It?

Ivan Kodvanj, Jan Homolak, Davor Virag, Vladimir Trkulja

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: COVID-19; WHO; database; systematic review; data quality; data

Online: 5 July 2020 (07:07:57 CEST)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0057.v4

Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

Mario Pagliaro

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: scientific publishing; scientific journals; scholarly publishing; open science

Online: 3 June 2020 (05:37:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0443.v2

Preliminary Analysis of COVID-19 Academic Information Patterns: A Call for Open Science in the Times of Closed Borders

Jan Homolak, Ivan Kodvanj, Davor Virag

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: COVID-19; open science; data; bibliometric; pandemic

Online: 22 April 2020 (06:15:34 CEST)

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Introduction: The Pandemic of COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 motivated the scientific community to work together in order to gather, organize, process and distribute data on the novel biomedical hazard. Here, we analyzed how the scientific community responded to this challenge by quantifying distribution and availability patterns of the academic information related to COVID-19. The aim of our study was to assess the quality of the information flow and scientific collaboration, two factors we believe to be critical for finding new solutions for the ongoing pandemic. Materials and methods: The RISmed R package, and a custom Python script were used to fetch metadata on articles indexed in PubMed and published on Rxiv preprint server. Scopus was manually searched and the metadata was exported in BibTex file. Publication rate and publication status, affiliation and author count per article, and submission-to-publication time were analysed in R. Biblioshiny application was used to create a world collaboration map. Results: Our preliminary data suggest that COVID-19 pandemic resulted in generation of a large amount of scientific data, and demonstrates potential problems regarding the information velocity, availability, and scientific collaboration in the early stages of the pandemic. More specifically, our results indicate precarious overload of the standard publication systems, significant problems with data availability and apparent deficient collaboration. Conclusion: In conclusion, we believe the scientific community could have used the data more efficiently in order to create proper foundations for finding new solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, we believe we can learn from this on the go and adopt open science principles and a more mindful approach to COVID-19-related data to accelerate the discovery of more efficient solutions. We take this opportunity to invite our colleagues to contribute to this global scientific collaboration by publishing their findings with maximal transparency.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0443.v1

Preliminary Analysis of COVID-19 Academic Information Patterns: A Call for Open Science in the Times of Closed Borders

Jan Homolak, Ivan Kodvanj, Davor Virag

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: COVID-19; open science; data; bibliometric; pandemic

Online: 31 March 2020 (04:38:53 CEST)

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Introduction: The Pandemic of COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 motivated the scientific community to work together in order to gather, organize, process and distribute data on the novel biomedical hazard. Here, we analyzed how the scientific community responded to this challenge by quantifying distribution and availability patterns of the academic information related to COVID-19. The aim of our study was to assess the quality of the information flow and scientific collaboration, two factors we believe to be critical for finding new solutions for the ongoing pandemic. Materials and Methods: The RISmed R package, and a custom Python script were used to fetch metadata on articles indexed in PubMed and published on rXiv preprint server. Scopus was manually searched and the metadata was exported in BibTex file. Publication rate and publication status, affiliation and author count per article, and submission-to-publication time were analysed in R. Biblioshiny application was used to create a world collaboration map. Results: Our preliminary data suggest that COVID-19 pandemic resulted in generation of a large amount of scientific data, and demonstrates potential problems regarding the information velocity, availability, and scientific collaboration in the early stages of the pandemic. More specifically, our results indicate precarious overload of the standard publication systems, delayed adoption of the preprint publishing, significant problems with data availability and apparent deficient collaboration. Conclusion: In conclusion, we believe the scientific community could have used the data more efficiently in order to create proper foundations for finding new solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, we believe we can learn from this on the go and adopt open science principles and a more mindful approach to COVID-19-related data to accelerate the discovery of more efficient solutions. We take this opportunity to invite our colleagues to contribute to this global scientific collaboration by publishing their findings with maximal transparency.

Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0306.v1

Information Behavior of the Academic Community of FMVZ-UNAM

Nora Lucía Galván-Ochoa, José Ricardo Manriquez-Betanzos

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: information behavior; veterinary information needs; online survey

Online: 20 March 2020 (05:22:05 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0268.v1

TEEDA: An Interactive Platform for Matching Data Providers and Users in Data Marketplace

Teruaki Hayashi, Yukio Ohsawa

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: matching; data marketplace; data platform; data visualization; call for data

Online: 17 March 2020 (04:10:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0257.v1

Library and Information Science in the USA and Iran

Michel Nguessan, Shima Moradi

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Library and Information Sciences; comparative study; education; profession

Online: 18 February 2020 (03:34:33 CET)

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Preprint ESSAY | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0057.v3

Scientific Publishing: Education as the Key Enabler for the Transition to Open Science

Mario Pagliaro

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: scientific publishing; scientific journals; scholarly publishing; open science

Online: 16 February 2020 (14:30:09 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0165.v1

Towards Easy Deposit: Lowering the Barriers of Green Open Access with Data Integration and Automation

Hui Zhang

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: open access; api; self archiving,; automation

Online: 13 February 2020 (10:34:30 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202001.0240.v1

Open or Ajar? Openness within the Neoliberal Academy

Kevin Sanders, Simon Bowie

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: openness under neoliberalism; open-access licensing in capitalism; the politics of open-licensing

Online: 21 January 2020 (11:00:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0154.v1

Narrowing the Gap Between Publication and Access: Is a Mandate Enough to Get Us Closer?

Maria Manuel Borges, António Tavares Lopes

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Open Access; institutional repositories; institutional mandates; self-archiving; Estudo Geral

Online: 17 June 2019 (07:08:09 CEST)

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Changes brought about by the Internet to Scholarly Communication and the spread of Open Access movement, have made it possible to increase the number of potential readers of published research dramatically. This two-phase study aims, at first, to assert the satisfaction of the potential for increased open access to articles published by authors at the University of Coimbra, in a context when there was no stimulus for the openness of published science other than an institutional mandate set by the University policy on Open Access (“Acesso Livre”). The satisfaction of the access openness was measured by observing the actual archiving behavior of researchers (either directly or through their agents). We started by selecting the top journal titles used to publish the STEM research of the University of Coimbra (2004-2013) by using Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index (SCI). These titles were available at the University libraries or through online subscriptions, some of them in open access (21%). By checking the journals' policy at the time regarding self-archiving at the SHERPA/RoMEO service, we found that the percentage of articles in Open Access (OA) could rise to 80% if deposited at Estudo Geral, the Institutional Repository of the University of Coimbra, as prescribed by the Open Access Policy of the University. As we concluded by verifying the deposit status of every single paper of researchers of the University that published in those journals, this potential was far from being fulfilled, despite the existence of the institutional mandate and favorable editorial conditions. We concluded, therefore, that an institutional mandate was not sufficient by itself to fully implement an open access policy and to close the gap between publication and access. The second phase of the study, to follow, will rescan the status of published papers in a context where the Portuguese public funding agency, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, introduced in 2014 a new significant stimulus for open access in science. The FCT Open Access Policy stipulates that publicly funded published research must be available as soon as possible in a repository of the Portuguese network of scientific repositories, RCAAP, which integrates the Estudo Geral.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0230.v1

Identification of the Differential Effect of City-level on the Gini Coefficient of Healthcare Service Delivery in Online Health Community

Haiyan Yu, Jingjing Chen, Jying-Nan Wang, Ya-Ling Chiu, Hang Qiu, Li-Ya Wang

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Gini coefficient; online health community; medical service delivery; Lorenz curve; inequality of health service; differential Effect

Online: 20 May 2019 (03:13:23 CEST)

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Preprint CASE REPORT | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0166.v1

Enabling a Conversation Across Scholarly Monographs through Open Annotation

Andrea C. Bertino, Heather Staines

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Open Annotation; Monographs; Open Access; Higher Education; Open Peer Review

Online: 14 May 2019 (10:03:41 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0238.v1

The DOAJ Spring Cleaning 2016 and What Was Removed – Tragic Loss or Good Riddance?

Jan Erik Frantsvåg

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Open access; DOAJ; publisher size

Online: 23 January 2019 (10:15:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0165.v3

Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Tormod Eismann Strømme

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Plan S; open access journals; APC; technical requirements; publisher size

Online: 22 January 2019 (11:39:01 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0165.v2

Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Tormod Eismann Strømme

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Plan S; open access journals; APC; technical requirements; publisher size

Online: 17 January 2019 (13:13:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0165.v1

Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant

Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Tormod Eismann Strømme

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Plan S; open access journals; APC; technical requirements; publisher size

Online: 16 January 2019 (10:19:23 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0016.v1

From a Smoking Gun to Spent Fuel: Principled Subsampling Methods for Building Big Language Data Corpora from Monitor Corpora

Jacqueline Hettel Tidwell

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: corpus linguistics; language modeling; big data; language data; databases; monitor corpora; documentary analysis; nuclear power; government regulation; tobacco documents

Online: 3 December 2018 (09:16:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0326.v2

Developing a Business Plan for a Library Publishing Program

Kate McCready, Emma Molls

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: business plan; publishing; academic libraries; open access

Online: 27 September 2018 (04:27:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0497.v1

Journal Ranking based on Publication Difficulty Factors (JRpDF): A Proposed Mathematical Algorithm

Saheer Al-Jaghoub, Hussein Al-Yaseen

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Journal ranking; Publication; Mathematical Algorithm; Academic Research; Promotion; Quantitative; Developing Countries.

Online: 29 August 2018 (13:10:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0492.v1

Grades of Openness. Open and Closed Articles in Norway

Susanne Mikki, Øyvind Liland Gjesdal, Tormod Eismann Strømme

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: bibliometrics; publication statistics; open Access; citation impact

Online: 29 August 2018 (10:32:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0326.v1

Developing a Business Plan for a Library Publishing Program

Kate McCready, Emma Molls

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: business plan; publishing; academic libraries; open access

Online: 18 August 2018 (06:19:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0001.v1

A Correlation Analysis of Normalized Indicators of Citation

Dmitry M. Kochetkov

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: normalized indicators; correlation analysis; Source Normalized Impact per Paper; SNIP; Field-Weighted Citation Impact; FWCI

Online: 1 August 2018 (05:57:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0560.v1

The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Web in the Context of Wikipedia: An Exploratory Approach to Study the Collective Conceptualization in a Digital Collaborative Environment

Luís Miguel Machado, Maria Manuel Borges, Renato Rocha Souza

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: semantic web; wikipedia; conceptual evolution; negotiated meanings

Online: 30 July 2018 (05:55:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0365.v1

Traditional Communication Media in Rural Information Service Delivery to Adolescents of Selected Communities in OBIO/AKPOR Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria

Chidi Kalu, Ijeoma Okidi, Amanze Unagha, Esther Chidi-Kalu

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: Traditional; Communication; Media; Rural; Information Service Delivery; Adolescent

Online: 19 July 2018 (15:25:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0118.v1

Smart Libraries

Joachim Schöpfel

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: smart library; smart city; library marketing; public library; academic library

Online: 6 July 2018 (14:13:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0252.v1

Synergy in Knowledge-Based Innovation Systems at National and Regional Levels: The Triple Helix Model and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Loet Leydesdorff

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: triple helix; innovation systems; reflexive turn; expectation; synergy

Online: 19 April 2018 (11:28:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0149.v2

Converting the Literature of a Scientific Field to Open Access Through Global Collaboration: the Experience of SCOAP3 in Particle Physics

Alexander Kohls, Salvatore Mele

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: CERN; Journal Flipping; Gold Open Access; Particle Physics; SCOAP3

Online: 19 March 2018 (14:15:52 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0149.v1

Converting the Literature of a Scientific Field to Open Access Through Global Collaboration: the Experience of SCOAP3 in Particle Physics

Alexander Kohls, Salvatore Mele

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: CERN; Journal Flipping; Gold Open Access; Particle Physics; SCOAP3

Online: 23 February 2018 (13:08:35 CET)

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Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0111.v1

Publishing Research Support Documents in Open Access Platform to Improve Research Impact

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Yii Bonn Bong

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: improve citations; research tools; research visibility; research impact; documents publishing; highly cited

Online: 26 June 2017 (04:20:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0062.v1

Relationship of Google Scholar Versions and Paper Citations

Marjan Mohammadjafari, Hadi Salehi, Kaveh Bakhtiyari, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Mahmoud Danaee, Masoud Shakiba, Masoomeh Shahbazi-Moghadam, Azam Zavvari

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: h-index; citations; published version; Scopus database; highly cited paper; bibliometrics

Online: 14 June 2017 (06:07:12 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201705.0026.v1

Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Editor Behavior through maybe Coercive Citations

Claudiu Herteliu, Marcel Ausloos, Bogdan Vasile Ileanu, Giulia Rotundo, Tudorel Andrei

Subject: Social Sciences, Library & Information Science Keywords: academic journal editor; citations; inappropriate tactics; coercive citations; citations overdose

Online: 3 May 2017 (08:27:17 CEST)

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