Browsing NIFU Open Access Archive by Author "Zhang, Lin"
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A comprehensive analysis of the journal evaluation system in China
Huang, Ying; Li, Ruinan; Zhang, Lin; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Journal evaluation systems reflect how new insights are critically reviewed and published, and the prestige and impact of a discipline’s journals is a key metric in many research assessments, performance evaluation, and ... -
Gender differences in the patterns and consequences of changing research directions in scientific careers
Zhang, Lin; Qi, Fan; Sivertsen, Gunnar; Liang, Liming; Campbell, David (Journal article, 2024)Changes of research directions in scientific careers are related to the so-called “essential tension” between exploration of new knowledge and exploitation of established knowledge in research and innovation. Changes of ... -
The influence of geopolitics on research activity and international collaboration in science: the case of Russia
Zhang, Lin; Cao, Zhe; Sivertsen, Gunnar; Kochetkov, Dmitry (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)We study the possible influences of the Russia-Ukraine War on Russia’s research productivity and international collaboration in science. For this purpose, we introduce and apply two recently developed indicators of relative ... -
Measuring scientific contributions with modified fractional counting
Sivertsen, Gunnar; Rousseau, Ronald; Zhang, Lin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-02)We develop and propose a new counting method at the aggregate level for contributions to scientific publications called modified fractional counting (MFC). We show that, compared to traditional complete-normalized fractional ... -
The new research assessment reform in China and its implementation
Zhang, Lin; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)A radical reform of research assessment was recently launched in China. It seeks to replace a focus on Web of Science-based indicators with a balanced combination of qualitative and quantitative research evaluation, and ... -
Science deserves to be judged by its contents, not by its wrapping: Revisiting Seglen's work on journal impact and research evaluation
Zhang, Lin; Rousseau, Ronald; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The scientific foundation for the criticism on the use of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in evaluations of individual researchers and their publications was laid between 1989 and 1997 in a series of articles by Per O. ... -
Should open access lead to closed research? The trends towards paying to perform research
Zhang, Lin; Wei, Yahui; Huang, Ying; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide during the past two decades. So far, this transition is increasingly based on article processing charges (APC), which create a new paywall ... -
Toward internationalization: a bibliometric analysis of the social sciences in Mainland China from 1979 to 2018
Zhang, Lin; Shang, Yuanyuan; Huang, Ying; Sivertsen, Gunnar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The past 40 years have witnessed profound changes in the international competitiveness of Mainland China’s scientific research. Based on publication data from Chinese researchers in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) ...