Sep
12
Open infrastructures with open citations
Research output comes in many ways. Journal articles, books, and book chapters took benefit from the Matthew effect: most abundant format, reinforcing itself. So much, in fact, that some scholars will have no trouble that research quality depends on these forms. Particularly journals articles. With impact factors. Evidence is missing, claims baseless, or just contradicting evidence people did collect.
Anyway, the effect of this dominance was that other research output forms no longer got sufficient attention. Indeed, the journals and books we had infrastructure for: libraries. They index them. Of course, a lot is changing and libraries started holding databases too now, but indexing of these is still mostly absent.
Anyway, the effect of this dominance was that other research output forms no longer got sufficient attention. Indeed, the journals and books we had infrastructure for: libraries. They index them. Of course, a lot is changing and libraries started holding databases too now, but indexing of these is still mostly absent.
