...Lai Ma Purpose This paper aims to understand the nature of citations and metrics in the larger system of knowledge production involving universities, funding agencies, publishers, and indexing and data analytic services. Design/methodology/approach First, the normative and social...

...Silvio Peroni; Alexander Dutton; Tanya Gray; David Shotton Purpose – Citation data needs to be recognised as a part of the Commons – those works that are freely and legally available for sharing – and placed in an open repository. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology...

... to the nature of the citation relation within this framework. The paper also considers the place of concepts like mapping, proximity and influence in the model. Research limitations/implications This conceptual paper is a first step. Multi‐relational networks may be a key instrument to further the study...

...Jingfeng Xia; Sara Kay Wilhoite; Rebekah Lynette Myers Purpose This paper seeks to examine a librarian‐faculty divide in authors' OA contributions with regard to article self‐archiving and OA consumptions with regard to citation counts. Design/methodology/approach This paper measures the OA...