Evaluation of the national research foundation-rated researchers’ output at a South African university

What is it about?

Most of the rated researchers’ output emanated from GS, followed by Scopus and WoS. There were more citations in GS, followed by Scopus and then WoS. NWU’s rated researchers are more visible in Mendeley compared to RG. However, significant percentages of them have profiles that are not active on both databases. There were significantly more reads in RG than Mendeley. Based on these results it can be concluded that RG has bigger social impact than Mendeley though the former is better at predicting academic impact.

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