Research evaluation measures research quality in several dimensions, such as research projects, researchers, institutions, research output and impact, and more.

VOSviewer is a popular software that visualizes connections between research works. You can use it to create networks of term co-occurrence. Here is a very good training video that guides you to do that.

With Connected papers, you can explore papers in your research field using graphs. You may discover more papers than traditional literature searches.

In your academic writing, you may cite a work to support your findings, or you may cite to refute the argument in the cited work. Citation count ("1" in both cases) does not tell you how a work is cited. Now there are tools that can reveal citation contexts. This post introduces one of such tools: scite.

Welcome back! We hope you had a restful and rejuvenating break. As we begin a new term, we would like to bring your attention to the new Researchers’ Series program.  

Research funders in Europe want to ensure that research output they sponsor are openly accessible. They implement Plan S and design the Rights Retention Strategy. What does that mean for researchers in Hong Kong?

When you submit a paper to a journal, do you check the journal's research data policy? It is important to know what you may be asked to do about your research data in the publication process.

Why does Google Scholar show higher citation counts than Scopus and Web of Science? What tools are better for tracing citations in fields outside of science and engineering?

After prolonged negotiations with Cambridge University Press, the Library will enter into a Read and Publish agreement with them effective January 2021. How is it different from the previous licenses?

While research publications on coronavirus have mushroomed in an amazing speed in 2020, some of them had to be retracted for various reasons. Retraction Watch is a good source to help us keep track of them.