Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation
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—a...
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| author | Antonia Ferrer-Sapena Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent Fernanda Peset Enrique A. Sánchez-Pérez |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8de5ff7feb5a4ab28be1e253b799aa112022-12-22T02:09:06ZengKorea Institute of Science and Technology InformationJournal of Information Science Theory and Practice2287-90992287-45772018-12-016461610.1633/JISTaP.2018.6.4.1Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research EvaluationAntonia Ferrer-Sapena0Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent1Fernanda Peset2Enrique A. Sánchez-Pérez3Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaCSIC-Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaThis 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.https://doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2018.6.4.1preprintresearch evaluationarXivimpactbibliometric analysiscitation |
| spellingShingle | Antonia Ferrer-Sapena Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent Fernanda Peset Enrique A. Sánchez-Pérez Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice preprint research evaluation arXiv impact bibliometric analysis citation |
| title | Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation |
| title_full | Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation |
| title_short | Citations to arXiv Preprints by Indexed Journals and Their Impact on Research Evaluation |
| title_sort | citations to arxiv preprints by indexed journals and their impact on research evaluation |
| topic | preprint research evaluation arXiv impact bibliometric analysis citation |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2018.6.4.1 |
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