Pour un jeune, se sentir citoyen, c’est pouvoir se projeter dans l’avenir, c’est sentir que l’on peut agir sur son parcours et dans la société. Travailler ces questions, c’est développer une responsabilité partagée, retrouver le sens du bien commun et...

By Geoff Maslen. An academic’s reputation plays a key role in generating increases in a scientific paper’s citation count early in its citation life cycle, before a tipping point, after which his or her reputation has much less influence relative to the...

By Anne Curzan. There was an “aha!” moment in my class this week that reminded me just how important it is to talk with students about the human conversation represented by academic citation. This idea of an academic conversation on the page is far from...

Want to up your citation stats? Try changing your name – but make sure it starts with an “A,” “B,” or “C.” That’s what a new paper in Economic Inquiry suggests (an abstract is available here). The study, by Wei Huang, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at...

By Paul Jump . UK research has higher citation impact than that of any comparator nation, a report commissioned by the government has revealed. The report, published on 6 December, says that the average number of citations garnered by UK papers relative...