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Since citation context information has entered the Web of Science (Clarivate) in recent years, one wonders whether the legitimacy and soundness of citation analyses for measuring research quality of publications can be improved by considering this information. The legitimacy and soundness of citation analysis can be established by assessing their construct validity. This can be done by studying how citation impact variables relate to generally accepted external validation data, like human expert assessments of research quality.[...]

In this study we investigate the relative contributions of co-authors to publications in mathematics. Mathematics is an interesting case for such research because it is one of only a few scientific disciplines in which alphabetical order of names of co-authors on publications is still the prevailing convention rather than contribution-based order. The study is based on unique data of publicly available author-provided quantitative contribution statements for co-authored papers from applications for habilitation degrees in Poland. [...]

Digitale Werkzeuge, Software und damit verbundene Infrastrukturen sind zentral für die moderne Wissenschaft. Mit Blick auf eine offene Wissenschaft (Open Science) gewinnen offene Software-Werkzeuge oder „Tools“ zunehmend an Bedeutung, da sie die Zusammenarbeit, die Reproduzierbarkeit und den Zugang zu Ressourcen fördern und unterstützen. Forschende tragen aktiv zur Entwicklung dieser „Open Research Tools (ORT)“ bei und gestalten damit die digitale Transformation des Wissenschaftssystems mit. Auch in Deutschland ist dieser Wandel spürbar, wobei hier der Bereich Forschungssoftware an Bedeutung gewinnt. Ziel der Studie ist es,...

In this study, we investigated whether citation context information is able to increase the validity of citation impact analyses to measure research quality compared to simple citation counts. We analyzed the statistical relationships of information extracted from structured citation context data in the Web of Science (Clarivate) such as the placement of citations within specific sections of an article with post-publication peer review quality ratings from Faculty Opinions (H1 connect), used as an external validity criterion for research quality. The study is based on publications in medicine and life sciences. [...]