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most citedThe Journal Coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A Comparative Analysis

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What do Indian Researchers download from Sci-Hub

Vivek Kumar Singh, Satya Swarup Srichandan, Sujit Bhattacharya

Recently three foreign academic publishers filed a case of copyright infringement against Sci-Hub and LibGen before the Delhi High Court and prayed for complete blocking these webs…

cs.DL20203 cited

Do 'altmetric mentions' follow Power Laws? Evidence from social media mention data in Altmetric.com

Sumit Kumar Banshal, Aparna Basu, Vivek Kumar Singh +2

Power laws are a characteristic distribution that are ubiquitous, in that they are found almost everywhere, in both natural as well as in man-made systems. They tend to emerge in l…

cs.DL20201.8k cited

The Journal Coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A Comparative Analysis

Vivek Kumar Singh, Prashasti Singh, Mousumi Karmakar +2

Traditionally, Web of Science and Scopus have been the two most widely used databases for bibliometric analyses. However, during the last few years some new scholarly databases, su…

cs.DL202019 cited

The Case of Significant Variations in Gold-Green and Black Open Access: Evidence from Indian Research Output

Vivek Kumar Singh, Rajesh Piryani, Satya Swarup Srichandan

Open Access has emerged as an important movement worldwide during the last decade. There are several initiatives now that persuade researchers to publish in open access journals an…

cs.DL202032 cited

Does presence of social media plugins in a journal website result in higher social media attention of its research publications

Mousumi Karmakar, Sumit Kumar Banshal, Vivek Kumar Singh

Social media platforms have now emerged as an important medium for wider dissemination of research articles; with authors, readers and publishers creating different kinds of social…

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India's rank and global share in scientific research -- how publication counting method and subject selection can vary the outcomes

Vivek Kumar Singh, Parveen Arora, Ashraf Uddin +1

During the last two decades, India has emerged as a major knowledge producer in the world, however different reports put it at different ranks, varying from 3rd to 9th places. The…