“We want to support the evidence-based development of metrics that are appropriate and well thought-out instead of repeating mistakes of the past by creating more flawed indicators.”

By Mario Malički and Juan Pablo Alperin This blog post is inspired by our four part series documenting the methodological […]

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In the last of our four-part series documenting the methodological challenges we faced during our project investigating preprint growth and uptake, we turn to the metadata of arXiv’s Quantitative Biology section.

This blog post is the third in a four part series documenting the methodological challenges we faced during our project investigating preprint growth and uptake.

Working with preprint metadata? As we highlight in this post, OSF’s preprint servers might not be the best place to start.

How much research shared on Facebook is hidden from public view? In this blog post, we highlight key findings from a new study investigating this question and what they mean for scholarly communications and altmetrics research.

In this four-part blog series, we explore the many challenges we encountered in working with preprint metadata, including lack of documentation, missing values, and incompatible and erroneous data.

How do social annotation tools help students learn? We conducted research in three unique university classrooms to find out.

Do academics use emojis on Twitter? Stefanie Haustein analyzed more than 40 million tweets mentioning scientific journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, and other documents to find out.