Philipp Mayr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1848561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Mayr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Mayr |
| SIGNATURE | MAYR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6656-1658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Analysis of the publication and document types in OpenAlex, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and Semantic Scholar
The assignment of document and publication types in scholarly databases plays an important role in bibliometrics, for example in decision-making or university rankings. However, scholarly databases apply different curation strategies and taxonomies when classifying documents, which makes it difficult to compare results from different database providers. In this study, the academic literature databases OpenAlex, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and…
Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus
OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it permits researchers to perform bibliometric studies that can be reproduced in the community without licensing barriers. However, as OpenAlex is a rapidly evolving source and the data contained within is expanding and also quickly changing, the quest…
Probleme und Potenziale der Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland am Beispiel des Fachinformationsdienstes Politikwissenschaft
Die Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland ist, wie die Forschungsförderung insgesamt, stark auf Projekte orientiert und von Drittmitteln abhängig. Diese Konstellation birgt einerseits Potenziale, zum Beispiel für technische Innovationen zur Anpassung an den digitalen Wandel. Andererseits bringt diese Ausgangslage auch Probleme mit sich, vor allem im Hinblick auf einen nachhaltigen Betrieb der Forschungsinfrastruktureinrichtungen und die…
Protect our environment from information overload
No deal
In 2014, a union of German research organizations established Projekt DEAL, a national-level project to negotiate licensing agreements with large scientific publishers. Negotiations between DEAL and Elsevier began in 2016, and broke down without a successful agreement in 2018; during this time, around 200 German research institutions canceled their license agreements with Elsevier, leading Elsevier to restrict journal access at those institutions…
Which factors are associated with Open Access publishing? A Springer Nature case study
Open Access (OA) facilitates access to research articles. However, authors or funders often must pay the publishing costs, preventing authors who do not receive financial support from participating in OA publishing and gaining citation advantage for OA articles. OA may exacerbate existing inequalities in the publication system rather than overcome them. To investigate this, we studied 522,411 articles published by Springer Nature. Employing corre…
The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions
Open access uptake in Germany 2010–2018
This study investigates the development of open access (OA) to journal articles from authors affiliated with German universities and non-university research institutions in the period 2010–2018. Beyond determining the overall share of openly available articles, a systematic classification of distinct categories of OA publishing allowed us to identify different patterns of adoption of OA. Taking into account the particularities of the German resea…
What happens when a journal converts to open access? A bibliometric analysis
In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access has led to many journals converting, or ‘flipping’, from a closed access (CA) to an open access (OA) publishing model. Changing the publishing model can influence the decision of authors to submit their papers to a journal, and increased article accessibility may influence citation behaviour. In this paper we aimed to understand how flipping a journal to an OA m…
Scholarly literature mining with information retrieval and natural language processing
Tracking self-citations in academic publishing
Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based adjustments are necessary to ensure that measurements yield the most accurate picture of impact and excellence. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations, which are either excluded or inappropriately accounted for when using bibliometric indicators for research evaluation. Here, in favor of openly tracking s…
The relationship between bioRxiv preprints, citations and altmetrics
A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is to enhance its citation or social impact. In this study we assessed the citation and altmetric advantage of bioRxiv, a preprint server for the biological sciences. We retrieved metadata of all bioRxiv preprints deposited between November 2013 and December 2017, and matched them to articles that were subsequently published in peer-reviewed journals. Citation dat…
Think Before You Collect
This chapter discusses important challenges of designing the data collection setup for social media studies. It outlines how it is necessary to carefully think about which data to collect and to use, and to recognize the effects that a specific data collection approach may have on the types of analyses that can be carried out and the results that can be expected in a study. We will highlight important questions one should ask before setting up a …
Probleme und Potenziale der Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland am Beispiel des Fachinformationsdienstes Politikwissenschaft
Die Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland ist, wie die Forschungsförderung insgesamt, stark auf Projekte orientiert und von Drittmitteln abhängig. Diese Konstellation birgt einerseits Potenziale, zum Beispiel für technische Innovationen zur Anpassung an den digitalen Wandel. Andererseits bringt diese Ausgangslage auch Probleme mit sich, vor allem im Hinblick auf einen nachhaltigen Betrieb der Forschungsinfrastruktureinrichtungen und die…
Think Before You Collect
This chapter discusses important challenges of designing the data collection setup for social media studies. It outlines how it is necessary to carefully think about which data to collect and to use, and to recognize the effects that a specific data collection approach may have on the types of analyses that can be carried out and the results that can be expected in a study. We will highlight important questions one should ask before setting up a …
Scholarly literature mining with information retrieval and natural language processing
Tracking self-citations in academic publishing
Citation metrics have value because they aim to make scientific assessment a level playing field, but urgent transparency-based adjustments are necessary to ensure that measurements yield the most accurate picture of impact and excellence. One problematic area is the handling of self-citations, which are either excluded or inappropriately accounted for when using bibliometric indicators for research evaluation. Here, in favor of openly tracking s…
The relationship between bioRxiv preprints, citations and altmetrics
A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is to enhance its citation or social impact. In this study we assessed the citation and altmetric advantage of bioRxiv, a preprint server for the biological sciences. We retrieved metadata of all bioRxiv preprints deposited between November 2013 and December 2017, and matched them to articles that were subsequently published in peer-reviewed journals. Citation dat…
The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions
Open access uptake in Germany 2010–2018
This study investigates the development of open access (OA) to journal articles from authors affiliated with German universities and non-university research institutions in the period 2010–2018. Beyond determining the overall share of openly available articles, a systematic classification of distinct categories of OA publishing allowed us to identify different patterns of adoption of OA. Taking into account the particularities of the German resea…
What happens when a journal converts to open access? A bibliometric analysis
In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access has led to many journals converting, or ‘flipping’, from a closed access (CA) to an open access (OA) publishing model. Changing the publishing model can influence the decision of authors to submit their papers to a journal, and increased article accessibility may influence citation behaviour. In this paper we aimed to understand how flipping a journal to an OA m…
No deal
In 2014, a union of German research organizations established Projekt DEAL, a national-level project to negotiate licensing agreements with large scientific publishers. Negotiations between DEAL and Elsevier began in 2016, and broke down without a successful agreement in 2018; during this time, around 200 German research institutions canceled their license agreements with Elsevier, leading Elsevier to restrict journal access at those institutions…
Which factors are associated with Open Access publishing? A Springer Nature case study
Open Access (OA) facilitates access to research articles. However, authors or funders often must pay the publishing costs, preventing authors who do not receive financial support from participating in OA publishing and gaining citation advantage for OA articles. OA may exacerbate existing inequalities in the publication system rather than overcome them. To investigate this, we studied 522,411 articles published by Springer Nature. Employing corre…
Probleme und Potenziale der Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland am Beispiel des Fachinformationsdienstes Politikwissenschaft
Die Forschungsinfrastrukturförderung in Deutschland ist, wie die Forschungsförderung insgesamt, stark auf Projekte orientiert und von Drittmitteln abhängig. Diese Konstellation birgt einerseits Potenziale, zum Beispiel für technische Innovationen zur Anpassung an den digitalen Wandel. Andererseits bringt diese Ausgangslage auch Probleme mit sich, vor allem im Hinblick auf einen nachhaltigen Betrieb der Forschungsinfrastruktureinrichtungen und die…
Protect our environment from information overload
Reference coverage analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus
OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data freely and openly, it permits researchers to perform bibliometric studies that can be reproduced in the community without licensing barriers. However, as OpenAlex is a rapidly evolving source and the data contained within is expanding and also quickly changing, the quest…
Analysis of the publication and document types in OpenAlex, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and Semantic Scholar
The assignment of document and publication types in scholarly databases plays an important role in bibliometrics, for example in decision-making or university rankings. However, scholarly databases apply different curation strategies and taxonomies when classifying documents, which makes it difficult to compare results from different database providers. In this study, the academic literature databases OpenAlex, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, and…
Computer Science (9 works) · scientometrics and bibliometrics research (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Bibliometrics (6 works) · Academic Publishing and Open Access (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Publishing (5 works) · Research Data Management Practices (5 works) · Scopus (5 works)