263 citations · 496 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for
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A multi-dimensional analysis of usage counts, Mendeley readership, and citations for journal and conference papers
Wencan Tian, Zhichao Fang, Xianwen Wang +1
This study analyzed 16,799 journal papers and 98,773 conference papers published by IEEE Xplore in 2016 to investigate the relationships among usage counts, Mendeley readership, an…
How are exclusively data journals indexed in major scholarly databases? An examination of the Web of Science, Scopus, Dimensions, and OpenAlex
Chenyue Jiao, Kai Li, Zhichao Fang
As part of the data-driven paradigm and open science movement, the data paper is becoming a popular way for researchers to publish their research data, based on academic norms that…
WeChat uptake of Chinese scholarly journals: an analysis of CSSCI-indexed journals
Ting Cong, Zhichao Fang, Rodrigo Costas
The study of how science is discussed and how scholarly actors interact on social media has increasingly become popular in the field of scientometrics in recent years. While most p…
Studying the scientific mobility and international collaboration funded by the China Scholarship Council
Zhichao Fang, Wout Lamers, Rodrigo Costas
Every year many scholars are funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). The CSC is a funding agency established by the Chinese government with the main initiative of training C…
Data sharing practices across knowledge domains: a dynamic examination of data availability statements in PLOS ONE publications
Chenyue Jiao, Kai Li, Zhichao Fang
As the importance of research data gradually grows in sciences, data sharing has come to be encouraged and even mandated by journals and funders in recent years. Following this tre…
An extensive analysis of the presence of altmetric data for Web of Science publications across subject fields and research topics
Zhichao Fang, Rodrigo Costas, Wencan Tian +2
Sufficient data presence is one of the key preconditions for applying metrics in practice. Based on both Altmetric.com data and Mendeley data collected up to 2019, this paper prese…
Tracking the Twitter attention around the research efforts on the COVID-19 pandemic
Zhichao Fang, Rodrigo Costas
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a bulk of scientific research and related Twitter discussions. To unravel the public concerns about the COVID-19 crisi…
The stability of Twitter metrics: A study on unavailable Twitter mentions of scientific publications
Zhichao Fang, Jonathan Dudek, Rodrigo Costas
This paper investigates the stability of Twitter counts of scientific publications over time. For this, we conducted an analysis of the availability statuses of over 2.6 million Tw…
The poor altmetric performance of publications authored by researchers in mainland China
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Qingchun Li +1
China's scientific output has risen precipitously over the past decade; it is now the world's second-largest producer of scientific papers, behind only the United States. The quali…
Detecting and Tracking The Real-time Hot Topics: A Study on Computational Neuroscience
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang
In this study, following the idea of our previous paper (Wang, et al., 2013a), we improve the method to detect and track hot topics in a specific field by using the real-time artic…
Tracking the Digital Footprints to Scholarly Articles from Social Media
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Xinhui Guo
Scholarly articles are discussed and shared on social media, which generates altmetrics. On the opposite side, what is the impact of social media on the dissemination of scholarly…
Tracing Digital Footprints to Academic Articles: An Investigation of PeerJ Publication Referral Data
Xianwen Wang, Shenmeng Xu, Zhichao Fang
In this study, we propose a novel way to explore the patterns of people's visits to academic articles. About 3.4 million links to referral source of visitors of 1432 papers publish…
The Open Access Advantage Considering Citation, Article Usage and Social Media Attention
Xianwen Wang, Chen Liu, Wenli Mao +1
In this study, we compare the difference in the impact between open access (OA) and non-open access (non-OA) articles. 1761 Nature Communications articles published from 1 Jan. 201…
Continuous, Dynamic and Comprehensive Article-Level Evaluation of Scientific Literature
Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Yang Yang
It is time to make changes to the current research evaluation system, which is built on the journal selection. In this study, we propose the idea of continuous, dynamic and compreh…
From Attention to Citation, What and How Does Altmetrics Work?
Xianwen Wang, Chen Liu, Zhichao Fang +1
Scholarly and social impacts of scientific publications could be measured by various metrics. In this study, the relationship between various metrics of 63,805 PLOS research articl…