Scholarly Communication Network

Scholarly Communication Network

Publications

Our selected papers on research evaluation systems and their consequences (in English):

  • Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M., Taşkın, Z. & Doğan, G. (2022). Questionable conferences and presenters from top-ranked universities. Journal of Information Science. Doi: 10.1177/01655515221087674 (author copy)
  • Taşkın, Z., Taşkın, A., Doğan, G. & Kulczycki, E. (2022). Factors affecting time to publication in information science. Scientometrics. Doi: 10.1007/s11192-022-04296-8 (open access)
  • Taşkın, Z. (2022). Current research evaluation topics in social sciences. In Tim Engels & Emanuel Kulczycki (Eds.) Handbook on Research Assessment in Social Sciences. Edward Elgar Publishing. (Author copy).
  • Taşkın, Z., Doğan, G., Kulczycki, E. & Zuccala, A.A. (2021). Self-citation patterns of journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. Journal of Informetrics, 15(4). Doi: 10.1016/j.joi.2021.101221 (open access)
  • Kulczycki, E., Hołowiecki, M. Taşkın, Z. & Krawczyk, F. (2021). Citation patterns between impact-factor and questionable journals. Scientometrics, 126, 8541-8560. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04121-8. (Open access). 

On developing new methods and techniques for research evaluation:

  • Taşkın, Z. & Al, U. (2018). A content-based citation analysis study based on text categorization. Scientometrics, 114(1), 335-357. Doi: 10.1007/s11192-017-2560-2 (author copy)

On university ranking systems:

  • Doğan, G. ve Al, U. (2019). Is it possible to rank universities using fewer indicators? A study on five international university rankings. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(1), 18-37. Doi: 10.1108/AJIM-05-2018-0118

On the quality of bibliometric data:

On the exploration of the intellectual structure of scientific groups, disciplines, journals, and subject areas:

  • Swatek, A., Taşkın, Z. & Jackson, N.C. (2022). Revisiting “family matters”: How citation patterns in JSLW reveal the changing nature of the L2W field and the decreasing role of composition & rhetoric. Journal of Writing Analytics, 6, 145-165. Doi: 10.37514/JWA-J.2022.6.1.06 (open access)
  • Taşkın, Z. (2021). Forecasting the future of library and information science and its sub-fields. Scientometrics, 126, 1527–1551. Doi: 10.1007/s11192-020-03800-2 
  • Doğan, G. & Taşkın, Z. (2020). Humanities: The outlier of research assessments. Information (Special issue ICT Enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities), 11(11), 540. Doi: 10.3390/info11110540 (open access)
  • Taşkın, Z. & Al, U. (2019). Natural language processing applications in library and information science. Online Information Review, 43(4), 676-690. Doi: 10.1108/OIR-07-2018-0217 (author copy)
  • Mizrachi, D., Salaz, A. M., Kurbanoglu, S. & Boustany, J. (ARFIS Group). (2018). Academic reading format preferences and behaviors Among university students worldwide: A comparative survey analysis. PLOS ONE, 13(5). Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197444
  • Aydinoglu, A.U. & Taşkın, Z. (2018). Origins of life research: a bibliometric approach. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 48(1), 55-71. Doi: 10.1007/s11084-017-9543-4 (author copy)
  • Todorova, T. Y., Kurbanoglu, S., Boustany, J., Dogan, G. Saunders, L., Horvat, A., Terra, A. L. et al. (2017). Information professionals and copyright literacy: A multinational study. Library Management, 38(6/7), 323-344. doi: 10.1108/LM-01-2017-0007
  • Taşkın, Z. & Aydinoglu, A.U. (2015). Collaborative interdisciplinary astrobiology research: a bibliometric study of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Scientometrics, 103(3), 1003-1022. Doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1576-8 (author copy)

On open science and research data management:

  • Doğan, G., Taşkın, Z. & Aydinoglu, A.U. (2021). Research data management in Turkey: A survey to build an effective national data repository. IFLA Journal, 47(1), 51-64. Doi: 10.1177/0340035220917985 (author copy)
  • Aydinoglu, A.U., Doğan, G. & Taşkın, Z. (2017). Research data management in Turkey: perceptions and practices. Library Hi-Tech, 32(2), 271-289. Doi: 10.1108/LHT-11-2016-0134 (author copy)
  • Picarro, M., Angelaki, M., Doğan, G., Guy, M. & Artusio, C. (2015). Aligning European OA Policies with the Horizon 2020 OA Policy. UKSG Insights, 28(3), 32-43. Doi: 10.1629/uksg.252

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