A 20-year evaluation of PLAAS research outputs: Impact on the scholarly domain and in social media

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dc.contributor.authorKerchhoff, Gillian
dc.contributor.authorKahn, Michelle
dc.contributor.authorNassimbeni, Mary
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-09T07:41:12Z
dc.date.available2021-07-09T07:41:12Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractPatterns and methods of scholarly communication have changed with the growth in information technology, particularly the Internet and the social web. The changes have necessitated a broader definition of scholarly communication and the role of social media in the research process. We sought to record the body of work that the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), a research institute at the University of the Western Cape, produced over a 20-year period (1995–2015) – the first two decades of its existence – and to measure its visibility and impact using bibliometrics and altmetrics. A survey was also carried out to investigate to what extent PLAAS researchers knew and used social media in their research practice. Scopus and Google Scholar were used as citation indices and Altmetric.com provided Altmetric scores – a measure of impact through social and mainstream media.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKerchhoff, G. et al. (2019). A 20-year evaluation of PLAAS research outputs: Impact on the scholarly domain and in social media. South African Journal of Science, 115(7–8), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5655en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-7489
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2019/5655
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6378
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademy of Science of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectBibliometricsen_US
dc.subjectAltmetricsen_US
dc.subjectResearch outputsen_US
dc.subjectScholarly communicationen_US
dc.subjectGreyen_US
dc.titleA 20-year evaluation of PLAAS research outputs: Impact on the scholarly domain and in social mediaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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