Comparing the topological rank of journals in Web of Science and Mendeley.

ABSTRACT: Recently, there has been a surge of interest in new data emerged due to the rapid development of the information technologies in scholarly communication. Since the 2010s, altmetrics has become a common trend in scientometric research. However, researchers have not treated in much detail the question of the probability distributions underlying these new data. The principal objective of this study was to investigate one of the classic problems of scientometrics-the problem of citation and readership distributions. The study is based on the data obtained from two information systems: Web of Science and Mendeley. Here we based on the concept of the cumulative empirical distribution function to explore the differences and similarities between citations and readership counts of biological journa

SUBMITTER: Katchanov YL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667838 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature