Other than detecting impact in advance,alternative metrics could act as early warning signs of retractions: tentative findings of a study into the papers retracted by PLoS ONE

Scientometrics - The so-called altmetrics—short for alternative metrics—have gained their place in the scholarly publishing landscape, especially providing article-level complementary...     

Multi-criteria altmetric scores are likely to be redundant with respect to a subset of the underlying information

Scientometrics - Alternative metrics are primarily composed of raw data such as the counts of views, downloads, mentions, and so forth. Yet, they also feature several composite indicators that...     

Research Interest: another undisclosed (and redundant) algorithm by ResearchGate

Scientometrics - The scholarly social network ResearchGate (RG) started promoting a new composite indicator: Research Interest. That score is built upon a weighting scheme of citations,...     

On the money value of peer review

Scientometrics - Peer review is commonly recognized among the cornerstones of the scientific publishing system and, less narrowly, of scientific production in general. Although it plays such a...     

Multi-objective genetic optimization of the heat transfer from longitudinal wavy fins

In the present work, we investigate the optimization of the heat transfer from wavy fins cooled by a laminar flow under conditions of forced convection and from a multi-objective point of view. The problem is addressed by means of a finite element method which allows to compute the velocity and the temperature distributions in a finned conduit cross section under conditions of imposed heat flux. Thereafter, the fin profile is optimized by means of multi-objective genetic algorithm which aims to find geometries that maximize the heat transfer and, at the same time, minimize the hydraulic resistance. The geometry of the fins is parameterized by means of a polynomial function and several order are investigated and compared.     

ResearchGate Score,full-text research items,and full-text reads: a follow-up study

Scientometrics - This contribution focuses on the scholarly social network ResearchGate (RG). We take the cue from a recent change in the information shown on each researcher’s...     

The alleged citation advantage of video abstracts may be a matter of self-citations and self-selection bias. Comment on “The impact of video abstract on citation counts” by Zong et al.

Scientometrics - The paper authored by Zong et al. (Scientometrics, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03108-w) claims that equipping articles with a video abstract provides them a citation...