Journal article
Disciplinary differences of software use and impact in scientific literature
Scientometrics, v 109(3), pp 1593-1610
Dec 2016
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Abstract
Software plays an important role in the advancement of science. Software developers, users, and funding agencies have deep interests in the impact of software on science. This study investigates the use and impact of software by examining how software is mentioned and cited among 9548 articles published in PLOS ONE in 12 defined disciplines. Our results demonstrate that software is widely used in scientific research and a substantial uncitedness of software exists across different disciplines. Findings also show that the practice of software citations varies noticeably at the discipline level and software that is free for academic use is more likely to receive citations than commercial software.
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- Title
- Disciplinary differences of software use and impact in scientific literature
- Creators
- Xuelian Pan - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Service Nanjing ChinaErjia Yan - 0000 0001 2181 3113 grid.166341.7 College of Computing and Informatics Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104-2875 USAWeina Hua - 0000 0001 2314 964X grid.41156.37 School of Information Management Nanjing University Nanjing China
- Publication Details
- Scientometrics, v 109(3), pp 1593-1610
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Dordrecht
- Grant note
- Nanjing University (http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008048) National Consortium for Data Science
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000389336100011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84989206828
- Other Identifier
- 991014976824604721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
- Information Science & Library Science