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Samstag, 22. Februar 2020

Waltman et al. (2020). Opening science: The rebirth of a scholarly journal

Ludo Waltman, Vincent Larivière, Staša Milojević, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto (2020). Opening science: The rebirth of a scholarly journal. Quantitative Science Studies 1(1), 1-3. doi.org/10.1162/qss_e_

„Journal of Informetrics (JOI) was created in 2006 to serve the dynamic, interdisciplinary, and rapidly growing field of informetrics (Egghe, 2005, 2006a, 2006b, 2015). Leo Egghe, the founding Editor-in-Chief of JOI, attributed this growth to the increasing attraction of “scientists from fields such as mathematics, physics and computer sciences, thereby considerably increasing the number of researchers engaged in informetrics” (Egghe, 2006b, p. 4) as well as “the vast increase of the ways in which electronic information is created, distributed and used” (Egghe, 2006b, p. 3). Almost fifteen years later, the developments that Egghe observed have transformed not only the field of informetrics, but the entire scholarly dissemination ecosystem.“ …

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