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Figures in Scientific Open Access Publications

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Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge (TPDL 2018)

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This paper summarizes the results of a comprehensive statistical analysis on a corpus of open access articles and contained figures. It gives an insight into quantitative relationships between illustrations or types of illustrations, caption lengths, subjects, publishers, author affiliations, article citations and others.

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    We refer to the Revised Field of Science and Technology (FOS) classification at http://www.oecd.org/sti/inno/38235147.pdf..

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Acknowledgment

This research was funded by the DFG under grant no. 315976924.

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  1. Hochschule Hannover, Expo Plaza 12, 30539, Hannover, Germany

    Jean Charbonnier, Ina Blümel & Christian Wartena

  2. Technische Informationsbibliothek, Welfengarten 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Lucia Sohmen, Ina Blümel & Lambert Heller

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  1. University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

    Eva Méndez

  2. USI, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

  3. INESC TEC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Cristina Ribeiro

  4. INESC TEC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Gabriel David

  5. INESC TEC, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Sohmen, L., Charbonnier, J., Blümel, I., Wartena, C., Heller, L. (2018). Figures in Scientific Open Access Publications. In: Méndez, E., Crestani, F., Ribeiro, C., David, G., Lopes, J. (eds) Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11057. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_19

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