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The emergence of massive open online course (MOOCs) has been a turning point for the academic world and, especially, in the design and provision of training courses in Higher Education. Now that the first moments of the information explosion have passed, a rigorous analysis of the [...]

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Google Scholar Metrics' launch in April 2012, a new bibliometric tool for the evaluation of scientific journals by means of citation counting, has ended with the duopoly exerted by the Web of Science and Scopus databases. This paper aims at comparing the coverage of these three databases [...]

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At a time when academic activity in the area of communication is principally assessed by the impact of scientific journals, the scientific media and the scientific productivity of researchers, the question arises as to whether social factors condition scientific activity as much as [...]

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Objective. The scientific production indexed in Scopus on Blockchain in health sciences was characterized from 2012 to 2021. Design/Methodology/Approach. A bibliometric study of the scientific production related to Blockchain technology in health sciences was carried out andindexed [...]

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The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) not only criticizes the misuse of Garfield’s impact factor as a tool for the evaluation of scientific activity, but implicitly questions citation analysis in particular and bibliometric practice in general. The work of [...]

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Bibliometric services are being consolidated in the Spanish academic field due to growing interest in academic performance by university managers and leaders. Academic librarians are a key part of the bibliometric services because of their expertise in providing support and training [...]

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After an overview of the changes that are taking place in the world of bibliographic databases used for scientific search and evaluation, this work describes the free version of Dimensions (bibliographic database produced by Digital Science and launched in January 2018). As a first [...]

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The peg of this report is the 14th edition of the International Society for Informetrics and Scientometrics (ISSI) Conference, which was held in Vienna in 2013 and was by far the biggest event in this field. Based on this conference the author discusses the hottest and most controversial [...]

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An analysis of the situation of scientific communication in 2011 highlights some of the more relevant events, news and issues. Topics discussed include: the open access initiative and institutional repositories, semantic interoperability and linked data, use of the internet, right [...]

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Review of the scientific publication situation in Europe and especially in Spain. Among other issues, infometrics, indicators, university rankings, databases, WoS and Scopus, and open access repositories are discussed.