Does monetary support increase citation impact of scholarly papers?
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Does monetary support increase citation impact of scholarly papers? Yaşar Tonta1 · Müge Akbulut2 Received: 28 July 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract One of the main indicators of scientific development of a given country is the number of papers published in high impact scholarly journals. Many countries introduced performance-based research funding systems to create a more competitive environment where prolific researchers get rewarded with subsidies to increase both the quantity and quality of papers. Yet, subsidies do not always function as a leverage to improve the citation impact of scholarly papers. This paper investigates the effect of the publication support system of Turkey (TR) on the citation impact of papers authored by Turkish researchers. Based on a stratified probabilistic sample of 4521 TR-addressed papers, it compares the number of citations to determine whether supported papers were cited more often than those of not supported ones and published in journals with relatively higher citation impact in terms of journal impact factors (JIF), article influence scores (AIS) and quartiles. Both supported and not supported papers received comparable number of citations per paper and were published in journals with similar citation impact values. The results of the hurdle model test showed that monetary support is related with reducing the number of uncited papers, and with slightly increasing the citation impact of papers with positive (i.e., non-zero) citations. Journal-level metrics of JIF, AIS and quartiles are not associated with papers’ getting their first citations nor with receiving higher citation counts. Findings suggest that subsidies do not seem to be an effective incentive to improve the citation impact of scholarly TRaddressed papers. Such support programs should therefore be reconsidered. Keywords Citations · Impact factor · Article influence score · Journal quartiles · Hurdle model
This is a revised and expanded version of a paper presented at ISSI 2019: 17th International Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, 2–5 September 2019, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (Tonta and Akbulut 2019). * Yaşar Tonta [email protected] 1
Department of Information Management, Faculty of Letters, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey
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Department of Information Management, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, 06760 Ankara, Turkey
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Introduction The number of refereed papers that appears in scientific journals along with citations thereto is considered to be the main indicators of scientific productivity and quality of a given researcher, a research organization or a country. Many countries introduced what is called performance-based research funding systems (PRFSs) to streamline the scientific production process and improve the research performance (Jonkers and Zacharewicz 2016). PRFSs aim to assess the performances of researchers in a given time period. Some countries provi
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