Usage patterns of scholarly articles on web of science: A study on Web of Science usage count
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The WoS and Scopus platforms provide researchers with usage counts for publications, enabling researchers to analyze the usage data and to explore usage patterns.
“The WoS and Scopus platforms also provide researchers with usage counts for publications, enabling researchers to analyze the usage data and to explore usage patterns (Wang et al., 2016, Thelwall et al., 2013).”
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- Authors
- Wang, X., Fang, Z., & Sun, X.
- Affiliations
- Dalian University of Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Xianwen
- Venue
- Scientometrics
- Published
- 2016-08-09
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 917-926
- ISSN
- 0138-9130 (ISSN-L)
- 1588-2861
- OpenAlex
- W2484781924
- Cited by
- 120
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 6.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Scientometrics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61301227)
- Growth Plan of Distinguished Young Scholar in Liaoning Province (WJQ2014009)
- the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT15YQ111)
- MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (11YJA630128)
- Liaoning Province Higher Education Innovation Team Fund “Research on Responsible Innovation” (WT2015002)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web visibility and informetrics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Keywords
- Web of Science, power-law distribution, citation impact, information science journals, library science journals
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