On the relationships between bibliographic characteristics of scientific documents and citation and Mendeley readership counts: A large-scale analysis of Web of Science publications

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Highlights：

• This study presents relationship between Mendeley readership and citation counts with particular documents’ bibliographic characteristics.

• Ordinary Least Squares regression used to assess the relationships between dependent and independent variables.

• Compared to citations, readership exhibits relatively higher density values for editorial materials, letters, and news items.

• Factors influencing readership and citation counts are broadly similar across all fields.

摘要

•This study presents relationship between Mendeley readership and citation counts with particular documents’ bibliographic characteristics.•Ordinary Least Squares regression used to assess the relationships between dependent and independent variables.•Compared to citations, readership exhibits relatively higher density values for editorial materials, letters, and news items.•Factors influencing readership and citation counts are broadly similar across all fields.

论文关键词：Mendeley readership,WoS citation,Bibliographic characteristics,Document types

论文评审过程：Received 16 June 2017, Revised 9 December 2017, Accepted 12 December 2017, Available online 10 January 2018, Version of Record 10 January 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.12.005