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Multiple Citation Indicators and Their Composite across Scientific Disciplines

Multiple Citation Indicators and Their Composite across Scientific Disciplines

Citation indicators addressing total impact, co-authorship, and author positions offer complementary insights about impact. This article shows that a composite score including six citation indicators identifies extremely influential scientists better than single indicators.

Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production

Contributorship and division of labor in knowledge production

Examining the forms that division of labor takes across disciplines, the relationships between various types of contributions, as well as the relationships between the contribution types and various indicators of authors’ seniority.

Hiding journal names from your publication list is a great idea

Hiding journal names from your publication list is a great idea

Michael Eisen recently announced his new website, which features a new publication list that doesn’t mention journal names anywhere.

Putting credit back into the hands of researchers

Putting credit back into the hands of researchers

GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.