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I have become increasing bullish on the rise of what I have called innovative literature mapping tools which have been emerging in the last two to three years thanks to the increasing availability of openly Scholarly metadata (in particular title, abstracts and citation data). I would identify Barney walker's Citation Gecko released in 2018 as the first of it's class of

In the last month, there were two interesting developments that caused quite a stir in my twitter feeds (see discussions here and here). Firstly, there was an interesting announcement on the Unpaywall mailing list, that Unpaywall had detected that Semantic Scholar which was one of the biggest repository sources they were tracked had removed most of the articles it was hosting.

Synopsis : The definition of Open Access is far more complicated and debated than it appears on first glance.

One of the themes that I have been blogging about in recent years is the increased availability of open metadata in the academic/Scholarly ecosystem.  Article metadata (including citations & Scholarly PIDs - permanent ID) are now becoming widely available due to organizations like Crossref, ORCID, ROR and advocacy organizations like Intitative for Open Citations (I4OC) and

In this blog post, I will report on some major progress I believe have been made in the push for open citations Firstly, the recent announcement by Elsevier followed by ACS that they will finally support open citations is

In November 2019's Systematically improving the visibility of your research on social media - what would this look like? , I shared two initatives, one by a University Library and another by a  Researcher/Publisher to try to experiment to improve the visibility of their research papers posted on Social Media.

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Synopsis : I summarise some of my favourite literature review tools that have emerged in the last 2 years or so and the use cases I see them fitting in. In particular I briefly cover tools and techniques I like that help to record what has been found - basically reference managers [Zotero] to efficently check and gain access to full text - basically browser extensions like Libkey Nomad possibly other methods of access

UN Sustainability Goals or UN SDGs was first adopted in 2015 , and consists of 17 goals adopted by all United Nations Member States to achieve by 2030. In particular, in academia, there seems to be increasing interest in mapping literature directed at each of the 17 UN SDGs and filters showing this aspect of research is also starting to appear in various research tools in 2020 such as Scival , Dimensions and Overton.

In my last post, I talked about the state of retractions in the literature and how so much of the literature includes authors who probably unknowingly cites retracted works As journals (possibly even peer reviewers) are increasingly screening citations for retractions, it might be also a good idea to do your own screening before you submit your manuscript to avoid embarrassment.