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Publications, Volume 5, Issue 1 (March 2017) – 5 articles

Cover Story (view full-size image): Realizing the vision of an Open Science implies making the research outputs discoverable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The implementation of this vision presents several challenges ranging from defining appropriate citation mechanisms, rich metadata models and discovery approaches, creating domain ontologies and mediation mechanisms, to research infrastructures supporting such functionalities. This paper addresses an important aspect of this vision, i.e., making the research data services discoverable, thus facilitating the reproducibility of a research result. This is of paramount importance for science.
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Accountability and High Impact Journals in the Health Sciences
by Alison M. J. Buchan
Publications 2017, 5(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications5010005 - 13 Mar 2017
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As the requirement for accountability and demonstration of the impact of public and privately funded research increases, the practice of attributing impact to research published in high impact journals is on the rise. To investigate the relevance of existing bibliometrics laws to current [...] Read more.
As the requirement for accountability and demonstration of the impact of public and privately funded research increases, the practice of attributing impact to research published in high impact journals is on the rise. To investigate the relevance of existing bibliometrics laws to current health research practices, 57 research areas in Web of Science (WoS) representing the major and minor disciplines were studied. In the majority of cases, Garfield’s Law of Concentration is followed with 20% of journals in each area contributing 80% of the total citations. The major multidisciplinary journals formed an anomalous grouping with low overall citation rates, although those documents cited were at a level well above the norm. In all research areas studied, team science is the prevailing norm, single author publications were rarely present in the data sets. For researchers looking to maximize the uptake and recognition of their work, publication in the top journals in the appropriate research area would be the most effective strategy, which does not in many cases include the major multidisciplinary journals. Full article
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“Second Language Writing” Publications in Web of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis
by Beril T. Arik and Engin Arik
Publications 2017, 5(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications5010004 - 10 Mar 2017
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There are several indicators that distinguish an academic discipline, including journals, conferences, and graduate programs. One of them is the presence of academic publications in well-regarded citation indices such as Web of Science (WoS). This study explored the bibliometric characteristics of publications on [...] Read more.
There are several indicators that distinguish an academic discipline, including journals, conferences, and graduate programs. One of them is the presence of academic publications in well-regarded citation indices such as Web of Science (WoS). This study explored the bibliometric characteristics of publications on “second language writing” (SLW) covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index of WoS. We found that, while the first appeared in 1992 with a steady increase in recent years, there were a total of 266 SLW publications, mostly in the linguistics research area (92%), in the WoS between 1900 and 2013. The publications included articles, book reviews, and bibliographies written by 1.64 authors per publication, suggesting a low level of collaborations among SLW scholars. They cited 31.44 publications and received citations from 5.90 publications on average. An average SLW title had 2.49 different words and a total of 10.85 words, with an abstract of about five sentences and about six keywords and diverse topics including second language writing, writing, academic writing, error correction, and plagiarism. Our findings will be of value to second language writing scholars, graduate students, and practitioners for examining the status of their field. Full article
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Editorial
Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Publications in 2016
by Publications Editorial Office
Publications 2017, 5(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications5010003 - 12 Jan 2017
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The editors of Publications would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2016. [...]
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Research Data Reusability: Conceptual Foundations, Barriers and Enabling Technologies
by Costantino Thanos
Publications 2017, 5(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications5010002 - 9 Jan 2017
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High-throughput scientific instruments are generating massive amounts of data. Today, one of the main challenges faced by researchers is to make the best use of the world’s growing wealth of data. Data (re)usability is becoming a distinct characteristic of modern scientific practice. By [...] Read more.
High-throughput scientific instruments are generating massive amounts of data. Today, one of the main challenges faced by researchers is to make the best use of the world’s growing wealth of data. Data (re)usability is becoming a distinct characteristic of modern scientific practice. By data (re)usability, we mean the ease of using data for legitimate scientific research by one or more communities of research (consumer communities) that is produced by other communities of research (producer communities). Data (re)usability allows the reanalysis of evidence, reproduction and verification of results, minimizing duplication of effort, and building on the work of others. It has four main dimensions: policy, legal, economic and technological. The paper addresses the technological dimension of data reusability. The conceptual foundations of data reuse as well as the barriers that hamper data reuse are presented and discussed. The data publication process is proposed as a bridge between the data author and user and the relevant technologies enabling this process are presented. Full article
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Conference Report
White Paper on Research Data Service Discoverability
by Costantino Thanos, Friederike Klan, Kyriakos Kritikos and Leonardo Candela
Publications 2017, 5(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/publications5010001 - 23 Dec 2016
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This White Paper reports the outcome of a Workshop on “Research Data Service Discoverability” held in the island of Santorini (GR) on 21–22 April 2016 and organized in the context of the EU funded Project “RDA-E3”. The Workshop addressed the main technical problems [...] Read more.
This White Paper reports the outcome of a Workshop on “Research Data Service Discoverability” held in the island of Santorini (GR) on 21–22 April 2016 and organized in the context of the EU funded Project “RDA-E3”. The Workshop addressed the main technical problems that hamper an efficient and effective discovery of Research Data Services (RDSs) based on appropriate semantic descriptions of their functional and non-functional aspects. In the context of this White Paper, by RDSs are meant those data services that manipulate/transform research datasets for the purpose of gaining insight into complicated issues. In this White Paper, the main concepts involved in the discovery process of RDSs are defined; the RDS discovery process is illustrated; the main technologies that enable the discovery of RDSs are described; and a number of recommendations are formulated for indicating future research directions and making an automatic RDS discovery feasible. Full article
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