263 citations · 418 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for
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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…