In Search of Outstanding Research Advances – Exploring Editorial Recommendations
| Main Authors: | Jasmin Sada, Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka |
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| Format: | Proceeding eJournal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4155204 |
Daftar Isi:
- Over the last decades, several channels of scientific recognition have developed within the research system to highlight outstanding scholarly contributions. From the widespread use of bibliometric measures to alternative metrics in social media, one well respected, but still less exploited source of recognition for scientific work is the judgement of experts. Similar to prize awarding committees, major science journals have created special sections recommending articles, usually curated by scientific editors, to feature outstanding research advances from the continuously growing pool of scholarly publications. In the present article, we briefly describe these editorial recommendations and compare them to concurrent ways of identifying outstanding research. We highlight their advantages and limitations, presenting several types of such recommendations according to their scope, regularity of occurrence, and target audience. Our work in progress shows the promising potential of scholarly articles identified by editorial recommendations for analysis of scientific advances. We propose the idea of creating openly available datasets of editorial recommendations with community-based maintenance and curation. As a next step, we aim at comparing these editorial recommendations with currently established measures of research impact.