Abstract
The use of library Discovery tools has become a requisite intuitive skill for readers,
scientists and students. However, as this article explores, the bibliometric indicator
that quantifies citations, signaling centrality and importance of the scientific
communication, is suppressed from search results in the major discovery tools.
Instead, search results are retrieved based on keyword relevancy and user experience.
The absence of the citation indicator from search results has dual significance; it
creates an inability to estimate centrality and importance ("impact") of scientific
communication, yet at the same time, unhindered by citation count, research results
can generate a new space for discovery of new knowledge, and correct biases of
science produced in resource rich scientific institutions.
scientists and students. However, as this article explores, the bibliometric indicator
that quantifies citations, signaling centrality and importance of the scientific
communication, is suppressed from search results in the major discovery tools.
Instead, search results are retrieved based on keyword relevancy and user experience.
The absence of the citation indicator from search results has dual significance; it
creates an inability to estimate centrality and importance ("impact") of scientific
communication, yet at the same time, unhindered by citation count, research results
can generate a new space for discovery of new knowledge, and correct biases of
science produced in resource rich scientific institutions.
Translated title of the contribution | Relevancy and Centrality in Scientific Research: The significance of retrieval by relevancy vs. Bibliometric Indicators in Discovery Tools |
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Original language | Hebrew |
Article number | 3 |
Journal | מידעת |
Volume | 18 |
State | Published - 2022 |
IHP Publications
- ihp
- Bibliometrics
- Computer users
- Databases
- Experience
- Information retrieval
- Information science
- Information scientists
- Knowledge and learning
- Librarians
- Library science
- Quotation
- Relevance
- Research
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Bar-Ilan, J., Goldin, O., Michaeli-Goldberg, S., Peritz, B. C., Perez, O., Aharony, N., Elmalech, A., Belfer, I., Bergman, O., Gazit, T., Zhitomirsky-Geffet, M., Hadad, S. & Prebor, G.
18/07/22
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