The open access as a new bussiness model in scientific communication can have an impact on citations of scientific publications, which has been researched a lot. This article presents an analysis of the echo time, which indicates the period from publishing an article to the time of its first citation. The analysis of the echo time was made in two phases. In the first phase we selected four most frequently cited internationally renowned journals in civil engineering, ranked in the upper half of the JCR (Journal Citation Reports) list. In the second phase we investigated, for these journals, the number of citations by year in the period from their publication in 2007 till the end of 2012 in the following three databases: Web of Science (WoS), Scopus and Google Scholar (GS). They are hybrid journals, in which open access (OA) and non-open access (NOA) articles are published. In the study it was established that the first citations of OA and NOA articles appeared in the first year after publishing, but, on average, in first year after publication, more citations of OA articles appeared than of NOA articles. Both, OA and NOA articles published in the examined journals, reached the highest number of citations in the third or fourth year after publication regarding the indicator average number of citations. Regarding the indicator proportion of the sum of the number of citations in the cumulative sum of the number of citations in the period 2007–2012 this happened even earlier, i.e. in the second or third year after publication. Trends for these two indicators show the possibility of one more culmination in the number of citations of OA and NOA articles, for many of them it will be reached at an even higher number of citations.
The article presents upgrades and features of the new SICRIS application version, based on updated trasfer of data from ARRS, migration to open source environment and updated web services. In 2022, the project of migration from the Windows platform (MS SQL, ASP.NET, IIS) to the Linux platform (PostgreSQL, Java EE, Wildfly) was completed.
Based on (1) the lists of Slovenian scientific journals in international databases used to evaluate publications by Slovenian researchers, (2) regular government calls for support of scientific journals, and (3) a more detailed review of the main international bibliographic databases for this system (SNIP, JCR, SJR), we can conclude that 219 Slovenian journals with scientific articles were published in 2021. Every second journal was founded after 1990, and about 60% of them belong to social sciences and humanities. Their publishers are Slovenian institutions and the journals are diamond journals: only 7.7% of journals are affiliated with major global publishers and only 3.7% use APC (Article Processing Charge).
ZUM developed the COBISS/SciMet portal to monitor scientific publications and to evaluate publications published by Slovenian authors. The methodology of collecting, aggregating and processing data on Slovenian authors obtained from different information resources, e.g. WoS, Scopus, COBISS.SI, SICRIS, SNIP and JCR is described. The options of data display within the portal and the functionalities of the portal are presented. A new framework used for developing the COBISS/SciMet web application is presented.
Academic and research libraries/librarians were always important partners to the scientific research community. As a result of developments in scholarly communication, information resources availability in electronic form, networks and national research policies librarians are challenged to find new ways to engage with research communities.
Through the development of information and communication technologies, articles in electronic form have emerged. The journal Slovenian Nursing Review (Obzornik zdravstvene nege) also gained another media for transferring information, and this article presents the results of a study, in which users’ online behaviour was observed and the journal’s website traffic was measured.
In 2005, Hirsch developed the today commonly known and widely used h-index, the shortest quantitative indicator of the cumulative influence and relevance of the academic work of an individual researcher, a research group or an institution (university, institute, journal, etc.).
