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ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of diffusing scientific articles on Twitter on their citation impact. For a set of 1.3 million papers covered by the Web of Science and published in 2012, normalized citation rates are compared between tweeted and non-tweeted articles published in the same journal. The results indicate that tweeted papers, published in the same year and in the same journal received around 30% higher citation rates than papers which were not diffused on Twitter. This type of citation advantage appeared across disciplines and countries of authors, but varied in extent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Semantic Web and Linked Data promise to change the way we identify, classify, share, find and reuse information by managing and interlinking data so that it can be understood by machines. The benefits identified by the World Wide Web Consortium and other Semantic Web advocates have lead information professionals to explore these possibilities by implementing several initiatives based on Semantic Web technologies in recent years. Just like information science, Semantic Web research is multidisciplinary in nature and can be applied in many different disciplines. In this article, we provide a portrait of research on the Semantic Web using bibliometric methods and investigate the specific contribution of information science literature on the topic. We analyzed 6,438 articles published from 2001 to 2016 retrieved from the Web of Science database to evaluate the evolution of the papers published by discipline and the way the topic was discussed by different discipline. A citation analysis is also conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Treating all citations in a reference list equally is one of the common practices of citation analysis that have long been criticized. The increasing availability of digital full-text documents now makes it feasible to weigh citations in various ways, e.g., by their frequency or location in the text. In this paper we report preliminary results of a comparison of author citation weighing schemes based on in-text citation frequency, and the citation impact patterns that emerge from them in the field of library and information science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2007, the Association for Information Systems created a basket of eight journals that claim to bound the discipline. A review of the literature found 41 studies discussing the impact of the basket on scholarly publishing. While the basket of eight has had a positive impact on the impact factors for Information Systems, an increase that has not appeared in the LIS journal set, a review of citations finds a steady increase in the number of basket of eight journals being cited within the basket of eight. This paper discusses the impact the basket of eight has had on cited references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Citations and library holdings are two important metrics for assessing book impact. Traditional researches about correlations between these two metrics are mainly based on books' citations and holding numbers. More detailed information about books' holding (i.e. their holding regions) can be used in book impact assessment. In this paper, we will investigate the relationships between citations and more comprehensive features of library holdings, namely holding numbers, holding regions and holding distributions. We obtain citations of 2, 356 Chinese books from CSSCI and the corresponding library holding data from OCLC. Then, we conduct correlation analysis between citations and the three features of library holdings respectively. Results show that there are general weak correlations between the two metrics in all disciplines, while correlations in Linguistics, Ethnology and Archeology are stronger. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]