Characteristics of Mendeley Readership for Earth and Planetary Science Articles

IF 0.6 Q3 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology Pub Date : 2021-11-03 DOI:10.14429/djlit.41.6.16961

Amitav Nath, Sibsankar Jana, Patit Paban Santra

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Abstract

The scientific community considers readership analysis of academic artifacts to be a significant endeavor. The reference manager’s readership count is a momentous indication for early research evaluation. In response, this study demonstrates the characteristics of Mendeley readership for EPS articles from twelve narrow disciplines and compares them with citations. The bibliographic and citation data have been collected from Scopus and the corresponding readers’ data from Mendeley. The Spearman correlation was performed among citations and readers for all unique articles for all investigated disciplines. Further, we also looked at the relationships between articles with non-zero readers, as well as articles satisfied by percentile ranking of the top 75 per cent, 50 per cent, and 25 per cen treaders. The result indicates large correlations among citations and readers (avg. 0.669) for all investigated disciplines. If we analysed only non-zero readers, as well as a percentile ranking of articles, the correlation results show a decreasing trend. Around 98.57 per cent of articles have at least one reader in Mendeley and AS (97.53 %) discipline has registered the highest one. The CES discipline had registered the largest MRS of 32.25 and MCS of 12.75. Most of the readers come from post-doctoral students and Ph.D. students. The correlation results indicate that the readership statistics should be used as an impact indicator for EPS discipline.

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孟德尔地球和行星科学文章读者的特点

科学界认为对学术人工制品的读者分析是一项重要的努力。参考文献管理员的读者数量是早期研究评估的重要指标。为此，本研究分析了12个狭窄学科EPS文章的Mendeley读者特征，并将其与引文进行了比较。书目和引文数据来自Scopus，相应的读者数据来自Mendeley。在所有被调查学科的所有独特文章的引用和读者之间进行了Spearman相关性。此外，我们还研究了非零读者的文章与排名前75%、前50%和前25%的读者满意的文章之间的关系。结果表明，在所有被调查学科中，引文和读者之间存在很大的相关性(平均0.669)。如果我们只分析非零读者，以及文章的百分位数排名，相关性结果显示出下降趋势。大约98.57%的文章在Mendeley学科中至少有一位读者，而AS学科(97.53%)的读者人数最高。CES学科的MRS最高，为32.25,MCS最高，为12.75。大部分读者来自博士后和博士生。相关结果表明，读者统计数据可以作为EPS学科的影响指标。

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DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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1.70

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology publishes original research and review papers related to library science and IT applied to library activities, services, and products. Major subject fields covered include: Information systems, Knowledge management, Collection building & management, Information behaviour & retrieval, Librarianship/library management, Library & information services, Records management & preservation, etc.