59 citations · 251 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for
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Can REF output quality scores be assigned by AI? Experimental evidence
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
This document describes strategies for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict some journal article scores in future research assessment exercises. Five strategies have been…
Do bibliometrics introduce gender, institutional or interdisciplinary biases into research evaluations?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Systematic evaluations of publicly funded research typically employ a combination of bibliometrics and peer review, but it is not known whether the bibliometric component introduce…
Do altmetric scores reflect article quality? Evidence from the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Altmetrics are web-based quantitative impact or attention indicators for academic articles that have been proposed to supplement citation counts. This article reports the first ass…
Is big team research fair in national research assessments? The case of the UK Research Excellence Framework 2021
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Collaborative research causes problems for research assessments because of the difficulty in fairly crediting its authors. Whilst splitting the rewards for an article amongst its a…
Why are co-authored academic articles more cited: Higher quality or larger audience?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Co-authored articles tend to be more cited in many academic fields, but is this because they tend to be higher quality or is it an audience effect: increased awareness through mult…
Terms in journal articles associating with high quality: Can qualitative research be world-leading?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Purpose: Scholars often aim to conduct high quality research and their success is judged primarily by peer reviewers. Research quality is difficult for either group to identify, ho…
In which fields do higher impact journals publish higher quality articles?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
The Journal Impact Factor and other indicators that assess the average citation rate of articles in a journal are consulted by many academics and research evaluators, despite initi…
Is Research Funding Always Beneficial? A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of UK Research 2014-20
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +5
The search for and management of external funding now occupies much valuable researcher time. Whilst funding is essential for some types of research and beneficial for others, it m…
Predicting article quality scores with machine learning: The UK Research Excellence Framework
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +6
National research evaluation initiatives and incentive schemes have previously chosen between simplistic quantitative indicators and time-consuming peer review, sometimes supported…
Which international co-authorships produce higher quality journal articles?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
International collaboration is sometimes encouraged in the belief that it generates higher quality research or is more capable of addressing societal problems. Nevertheless, while…
In which fields are citations indicators of research quality?
Mike Thelwall, Kayvan Kousha, Mahshid Abdoli +4
Citation counts are widely used as indicators of research quality to support or replace human peer review and for lists of top cited papers, researchers, and institutions. Neverthe…
Can Microsoft Academic assess the early citation impact of in-press articles? A multi-discipline exploratory analysis
Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall, Mahshid Abdoli
Many journals post accepted articles online before they are formally published in an issue. Early citation impact evidence for these articles could be helpful for timely research e…