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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…