In order to improve the quality of systematic researches, various tools have been developed by well-known scientific institutes sporadically. Dr. Nader Ale Ebrahim has collected these sporadic tools under one roof in a collection named “Research Tool Box”. The toolbox contains over 720 tools so far, classified in 4 main categories: Literature-review, Writing a paper, Targeting suitable journals, as well as Enhancing visibility and impact factor.
Friday 28 October 2022
Can the presence of author photograph and biography have an impact on article citations? The case of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
The aim of this study
was to investigate whether the presence of author photograph and
biography in scientific articles could have an impact on article
citations. The impact of photograph and biography, in combination with
the author characteristics i.e., gender, affiliation country (measured
as whether the author was affiliated to a high-income country or not),
and scientific impact (measured as whether the author was a high impact
author or not), was also examined, whilst controlling for several
covariates. This study focused on a sample of articles published in the
time span of 2016–2018 in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering journals by
Elsevier. The articles were downloaded from Scopus. The analysis was
done using random effects within-between model analyses. Within authors,
the results showed no significant impact of author photograph and
biography on the geomean of citations. Different patterns were found for
visibility of articles, when author photograph and biography was
combined with author characteristics. While being affiliated to a
high-income country and being a high impact author had a positive impact
on citations, gender (female) had a negative impact. For gender, there
was a small citation disadvantage of 5% for female authors when they
provided a photograph and biography.
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