Auditing citation polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic
| العنوان: | Auditing citation polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic |
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| المؤلفون: | JInhyuk Yun, Jinseo Park, Lee, June Young, You, Taekho |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | FOS: Computer and information sciences, Physics - Physics and Society, FOS: Physical sciences, Digital Libraries (cs.DL), Computer Science - Digital Libraries, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) |
| الوصف: | The recent pandemic stimulated scientists to publish a significant amount of research that created a surge of citations of COVID-19-related papers in a short time, leading to an abrupt inflation of the journal impact factor (IF). By auditing the complete set of COVID-19-related publications in the Web of Science, we reveal here that COVID-19-related research worsened the polarization of academic journals: the IF before the pandemic was proportional to the increment of IF, which had the effect of increasing inequality while retaining the journal rankings. We also found that the most highly cited studies related to COVID-19 were published in prestigious journals at the onset of the epidemic, independent of their innate importance or quality. Through the present quantitative investigation, our findings caution against the belief that quantitative metrics, particularly IF, can indicate the significance of individual papers. Rather, such metrics reflect the social attention given to a particular study. 16 pages of main text including 4 figures + 6 pages of supplementary information including 1 supplementary table and 8 supplementary figures |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::01e4200b2ffd661c1adc74241a57a18e http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01926 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....01e4200b2ffd661c1adc74241a57a18e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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