Web of Science - Pilot- enhanced cited references In the recent years I have been blogging quite a bit about the idea of citation contexts (or citation intent or citation sentiment or...) in journal articles. While definitions and concepts might vary a little, the idea is not to simply just count citations but also try to figure out what they mean.
Since I started blogging about GPT-3 and language models, interest in this area has continued to increase.
A belated Happy New year to all my readers! The first blog post for the year will be a mixed bag of events or changes that have caught my eye.
As a generalist and dilettante in the field of academic librarianship, I highly appreciate works that
RISK WARNING NOTICE: my understanding of such matters are incomplete, read at your own risk!
It seems like OA week first started as "OA day" in 2007, the year I became a academic librarian.
I recently received an interesting question.
One of the central themes of my blog is that it covers the topic of academic discovery (100+ blog posts are tagged "Discovery" out of 300+ posts) and when it comes to discovery in the academic area, the importance of Google Scholar looms over everything we do in this area.
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I have become increasing bullish on the rise of what I have called innovative literature mapping tools which have been emerging in the last two to three years thanks to the increasing availability of openly Scholarly metadata (in particular title, abstracts and citation data