With just one click, you can find out how many papers Hong Kong has published from 1996-2018, citations per document, the H Index and world ranking.

Academic publishing companies try to plug “content leakage” caused by article sharing websites like Sci-Hub and ResearchGate. Is plugging a good solution when there is a strong need for scholarly papers behind paywalls?

A recent survey report shows that scientific activity is not declining but are shifting to other research activities.

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.