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Millennial researchers in a metric-driven scholarly world: An international study

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  • David Nicholas
  • Eti Herman
  • Hamid R Jamali
  • Abdullah Abrizah
  • Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
  • Jie Xu
  • Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo
  • Anthony Watkinson
  • Tatiana Polezhaeva
  • Marzena Świgon

Abstract

The study Investigates the attitudes and practices of early career researchers (ECRs) in regard to citation-based metrics and altmetrics, providing the findings in the light of what might be expected of the millennial generation and in the context of what we already know about researchers in today’s ‘culture of counting’ governed scholarly world. The data were gathered by means of an international survey, informed by a preceding, 3-year qualitative study of 120 ECRs from 7 countries, which obtained 1,600 responses. The main conclusions are: 1, citation indicators play a central and multi-purpose role in scholarly communications; 2, altmetrics are not so popular or widely used, but ECRs are waking up to some of their merits, most notably, discovering the extent to which their papers obtain traction and monitoring impact; 3, there is a strong likelihood that ECRs are going to have to grapple with both citation-based metrics and altmetrics, mainly in order to demonstrate research impact; 4, the Chinese are the most metric using nation, largely because of governmental regulations.

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  • David Nicholas & Eti Herman & Hamid R Jamali & Abdullah Abrizah & Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri & Jie Xu & Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo & Anthony Watkinson & Tatiana Polezhaeva & Marzena Świgon, 2020. "Millennial researchers in a metric-driven scholarly world: An international study," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 29(3), pages 263-274.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:rseval:v:29:y:2020:i:3:p:263-274.
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    1. Steffen Lemke & Athanasios Mazarakis & Isabella Peters, 2021. "Conjoint analysis of researchers' hidden preferences for bibliometrics, altmetrics, and usage metrics," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 72(6), pages 777-792, June.

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