How do we measure quality of scholarship? When it is common to evaluate research and researchers by where papers are published, finding good ways to rate journals becomes crucial for the global research ecosystem.
To regulate the excessive pursuit of Science Citation Index indicators, China seeks to establish evaluation systems that based on scientific value other than just counting number of papers and citations.
CORD-19 is a free dataset with over 45,000 scholarly articles about COVID-19 and related coronavirus to support researchers in fighting against the pandemic.
About 20% of HKUST journal articles are open access. Do these papers get more citations?
Last week we introduced 8 new scitech books authored or edited by HKUST faculty and researchers. This post showcases the other new books in humanities and social sciences.
HKUST authors publish over 2,000 journal papers every year, how many of them are openly accessible? The Library analyzed our institutional publishing profile, the study will help us when we negotiate new contracts with publishers.
Fifteen books were found published in 2019 by HKUST professors and researchers via the SPD - Institutional Repository: 8 in science and technology; 7 in humanities and social sciences.
For the first time, NSF S&E Indicator 2018 report showed that China has overtaken the U.S. in the total number of S&E research publications in 2016. The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2020 report reveals an even bigger gap.
This week is Fair Dealing & Fair Use Week, a time to celebrate using and sharing the fruits of our minds in a fair way.
Academic publishing has long been a low investment high profit business. How can academic publishers maintain such a successful business model?
