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Identifying potential breakthrough publications using refined citation analyses: Three related explorative approaches
Jesper W. Schneider, Rodrigo Costas
The article presents three advanced citation-based methods used to detect potential breakthrough papers among very highly cited papers. We approach the detection of such papers fro…
Do Mendeley readership counts help to filter highly cited WoS publications better than average citation impact of journals (JCS)?
Zohreh Zahedi, Rodrigo Costas, Paul Wouters
In this study, the academic status of users of scientific publications in Mendeley is explored in order to analyse the usage pattern of Mendeley users in terms of subject fields, c…
When is an article actually published? An analysis of online availability, publication, and indexation dates
Stefanie Haustein, Timothy D. Bowman, Rodrigo Costas
With the acceleration of scholarly communication in the digital era, the publication year is no longer a sufficient level of time aggregation for bibliometric and social media indi…
Can we track the geography of surnames based on bibliographic data?
Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Ed Noyons, Rodrigo Costas
In this paper we explore the possibility of using bibliographic databases for tracking the geographic origin of surnames. Surnames are used as a proxy to determine the ethnic, gene…
Interpreting "altmetrics": viewing acts on social media through the lens of citation and social theories
Stefanie Haustein, Timothy D. Bowman, Rodrigo Costas
More than 30 years after Cronin's seminal paper on "the need for a theory of citing" (Cronin, 1981), the metrics community is once again in need of a new theory, this time one for…