Factors affecting citation rates in environmental science

TL;DR: It is proposed that journals abolish arbitrary word or page limits, avoid declining papers (or requiring shortening) on the basis of length alone (irrespective of content), and adopt the philosophy that papers should be as long as they need to be.

TL;DR: Exploratory research is an attempt to discover new and interesting information by working through a research topic. It is the soul of good research and includes exploratory studies that make a tentative first analysis of a new topic or propose new ideas or generate new hypotheses on an old topic.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual overview of the literature dealing with the process of citing documents is presented, focusing on the literature from the recent decade, and theories have been proposed for explaining the citation process, and studies having empirically analyzed this process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a systematic review to compare studies of citations to OA and non-OA articles and reported article-level citation as an outcome, with a focus on multiple disciplines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distinguish between collaboration at different levels and show that inter-institutional and international collaboration need not necessarily involve inter-individual collaboration, and argue for a more symmetrical approach in comparing the costs of collaboration with the undoubted benefits when considering policies towards research collaboration.

TL;DR: Alternative methods for evaluating research are being sought, such as citation rates and journal impact factors, which seem to be quantitative and objective indicators directly related to published science.

TL;DR: The use of automated subset search algorithms is reviewed and issues concerning model selection and selection criteria are discussed and a Monte Carlo study is reported which presents data regarding the frequency with which authentic and noise variables are selected by automated subset algorithms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors of four disciplines at varying stages of adoption of open access were examined to see whether they have a greater impact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when their authors make them freely available on the Internet.