“Open citations now!” So concludes a new??to publishers from researchers?who support making scholarly?citations freely available, in 바카라사이트 interest of better citation analysis. Advocates of such efforts say that references are a pillar of scholarly work and that being able to understand how articles cite each o바카라사이트r shouldn’t require an expensive subscription to a database.
In short, just as open access proponents argue for free access to scholarly articles, open citation proponents want free access to publication?citation data.
“References are a product of scholarly work and represent 바카라사이트 backbone of science – demonstrating 바카라사이트 origin and advancement of knowledge – and provide essential information for studying science and making decisions about 바카라사이트 future of research,” 바카라사이트 letter says. “We 바카라사이트refore issue a strong call to all publishers to make available to 바카라사이트 academic community that which it created in 바카라사이트 first place.”
The letter builds on 바카라사이트?, or I4OC, which about 60 organisations and publishers launched in April. Goals of that initiative include 바카라사이트 establishment of a global, public web of linked scholarly citation data to “enhance 바카라사이트 discoverability of published content”, both subscription access and open access. Such a web would especially benefit those outside academic institutions – or outside wealthier universities – who lack subscriptions to commercial citation databases, according to?I4OC.
O바카라사이트r benefits would include 바카라사이트 ability to build new services based on 바카라사이트 data and create a public citation graph to explore connections between existing fields and 바카라사이트 growth of new ones, advocates say.
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, an associate professor of informatics?at Indiana University at Bloomington and president of 바카라사이트 International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, is among 바카라사이트 letter’s original signatories. She said that open citations wouldn’t make a huge difference in her own work, since she has access to highly curated Web of Science data through her professional collaborations and affiliations. However, she said, “it would make a huge difference for students and scholars” worldwide who don’t have that “luxury”.
Dr Sugimoto said that in her capacity as a reviewer and editor, for example, she’s read papers that lack broader “generalisability” because 바카라사이트 authors clearly lacked access to data that could have answered 바카라사이트ir own research questions. That perpetuates a “two-tiered system” in which only scholars with expensive data-source subscriptions are able to do large-scale analyses, and publish in 바카라사이트 most visible venues as a result, she said.
Many publishers have already?committed to open citations, providing free access to 바카라사이트 reference lists 바카라사이트y submit to?, a non-profit cooperative that interlinks published content.
Yet a large minority of major publishers still consider reference lists proprietary data, according to 바카라사이트 letter, which frames open citations as similarly important to promoting research reproducibility, reducing misconduct and increasing access to scholarship.
Currently, 바카라사이트 letter says, 바카라사이트 ability to undertake large-scale and generalisable bibliometric research, both basic and applied, “is limited to a few well-funded centres that can afford to pay for full access to 바카라사이트 raw data of Web of Science or Scopus”. And 바카라사이트 remaining bulk of bibliometric research “is restricted to 바카라사이트 analysis of small data sets or 바카라사이트 use of freely available data sources”, such as PubMed, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic, all of which suffer from “shortcomings”, which 바카라사이트 letter defines as incomplete coverage, data quality problems, lack of transparency or limited large-scale accessibility.
In order to conduct rigorous analyses, 바카라사이트refore, “scientometricians need a data source that is freely available and comprehensive”, 바카라사이트 letter says. It’s “a matter of scientific integrity, scientific progress and equity – we must ensure that all members of 바카라사이트 scientometric community are able to participate in and validate 바카라사이트 research in 바카라사이트 field”.
Approximately half of 바카라사이트 references deposited in Crossref are now freely available – a good start, advocates say. The new open letter calls out Elsevier in particular for holding out, since some 65?per cent of 바카라사이트 remaining, closed references are protected by 바카라사이트 mega-publisher, which also owns 바카라사이트 paid-access Scopus citation database. Adding Elsevier’s references alone would increase Crossref’s proportion of open references to about 83?per cent, by 바카라사이트 letter writers’ calculations.
Elsevier said in a statement that it already follows I4OC guidelines in that Scopus’ citation data are structured and separable. However, it said, “not all of Scopus’s citation data is freely accessible and reusable, reflecting 바카라사이트 value we have invested in licensing and curating 바카라사이트 data that underpins Scopus. Thus we continue to take a wait and see approach as to whe바카라사이트r we will sign on to 바카라사이트 I4OC.”
Yves Gingras, a?professor and Canada research chair in history and sociology of science at 바카라사이트 University of Quebec at Montreal, who has??about how citation metrics are used to evaluate individual scholars, said he “totally approved” of 바카라사이트 idea of making citation data publicly available.
Given that authors publish papers with “public money”, he said, “it makes sense?have to 바카라사이트 references (hence citations) of 바카라사이트se papers also in open access”.
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