DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tmpg4f503
title: Data From: Getting cited early: influence of visibility strategies, structure, and focal system on early citation rates

description: Elucidating factors that contribute to citation rates of scientific
 articles can help scientists write manuscripts that have a stronger
 influence on their scientific field and wildlife management, and are
 accessible to a broad audience. Using a cohort of 778 articles published
 in The Journal of Wildlife Management from 2011–2015, we examined how
 visibility strategies (e.g., open access, increasing the Atlmetric
 Attention Score, self-citations), article structure, and focal system –
 all factors authors can predominantly control – influenced the
 accumulation of citations over various time frames within the first 5
 years after publication, and the number of days until an article received
 its first citation. Visibility strategies influenced the number of
 citations accrued within the first year following publication. Our model
 explained less of the variation in number of citations received 1 year
 post-publication compared to 5 years post-publication (R2 increased from
 0.12 to 0.57 from years 1 to 5). Two years post-publication, factors
 associated with an article’s visibility increased citation counts, and
 factors associated with article structure and focal system became
 important. Our analyses suggest citation rates, within wildlife ecology,
 are influenced by a number of controllable factors and that the influence
 of an article on science and management can be increased by authors
 pursuing a variety of visibility strategies.
description: A description of the methods used to create these datasets is
 detailed in Gelzer et al. - Getting Cited Early: Influence of Visibility
 Strategies, Structure, and Focal System on Early Citation Rates. See below
 for a general description and metadata. <em>Final
 Dataset (.csv)- </em>We generated a database of all articles
 published in <em>JWM</em> between 2011 and 2015
 uid = unique identifier for each article<br>title = title
 of the article; journal = Journal of Wildlife Management<br>issue =
 issue number of the article<br>volume = volume number of the
 article<br>pages = the page numbers of the article<br>date =
 month the article was published (in print, otherwise the online
 publication month was used)<br>year = year the article was published
 (in print, otherwise the online publication year was
 used)<br>authors = the names of the authors of the
 article<br>keywords = the article's keywords <br>doi =
 digital object identifier (DOI)<br>no_authors = the number of
 authors of the article<br>no_words = total number of words in the
 article<br>length_no_pages = number of pages of the
 article<br>date_first_published = date article was first published
 (either online or print)<br>no_refs = the number of references in
 the article<br>no_words_abs = number of words in the abstract of the
 article<br>no_figs = number of figures in the
 article<br>no_table = number of tables in the
 article<br>date_published = date published in print (otherwise the
 date published online)<br>days_from_online2publication = the number
 of days between online publication and print
 publication<br>days2first_citation = the number of days to the first
 citation<br>cites_1stYR = total number of citations received by the
 article within a year after the article was published<br>cites_2ndYR
 = total number of citations received by the article within the first two
 years after the article was published<br>cites_5thYR = total number
 of citations received by the article within the first five years after the
 article was published<br>selfcites_1stYR = total number of
 self-citations (i.e., one or more authors [based on last name only] from
 the original <em>JWM</em> article were also present in the
 author line of a citing publication) received by the article within a year
 after the article was published<br>selfcites_2ndYR = total number of
 self-citations received by the article within the first two years after
 the article was published<br>selfcites_5thYR =  total number of
 self-citations received by the article within the first five years after
 the article was published<br>selfcite_1stCite = 0 if the first
 citation was not a self-citation, 1 if the first citation was a
 self-citation<br>hits_curr_yr = number of articles published in the
 article’s publication year that contained the article’s
 keywords<br>hits_prev_yr = number of articles published in the year
 directly preceeding the article’s publication year that contained the
 focal article’s keywords<br>no_keywords = number of keywords in the
 article<br>hits_curr_yr_perKeyword = hits_curr_yr / the total number
 of keywords of the article<br>hits_prev_yr_perKeyword = hits_prev_yr
 / the total number of keywords of the article<br>hits_trend =
 difference between hits_curr_yr_perKeyword and hits_prev_yr_perKeyword to
 provide an index of whether the number of articles containing the
 article’s keywords was increasing or decreasing over
 time<br>open_access = whether the article was open access (1) or not
 (0)<br>taxa = the primary taxon or taxa of interest (large mammals
 [&gt;~14 kg], small mammals, herpetofauna, birds, and multiple taxa
 [i.e., article studied more than 1 of the previous
 taxa])<br>no_species = the number of species in the focal analysis
 (i.e., number of species in the lowest taxonomic
 classification)<br>location = which continent or continents the
 study occurred on (US, NothAmerica_Other, Africa, Antarctica, Asia,
 Australia, Europe, South America, Multiple, Other,
 None)<br>alt_metric = the Altmetric Attention Score at the time
 manually extracted (July 2020)<br>no_figs_color = the number of
 figures in the article that were in color<br>type_manual = type of
 article as determined by methods outlined in Gelzer et al. (<em>in
 progress</em>). Options include commentary, human dimensions,
 methods, review, or normal (i.e., research article)<br>type_JWM =
 type of article determined by <em>JWM </em>(research article,
 note, population ecology, habitat relations, management and conservation,
 tools and technology article, human dimensions, density dependence special
 section, management and conservation article, demographics of
 reintroduction special section, multimodel inference special
 section)<br>methods_paper = whether the article was a methods paper
 (1) or not (0)<br>multiple_taxa = whether the article included
 multiple taxa (1) or not (0)<br>NorthAmerica = whether the
 article's research was conducted on North America (1) or not
 (0)<br>Multiple_continents = whether the article's research was
 conducted on multiple continents (1) or not (0)<br>species_morethan2
 = whether the number of focal species included in the article (number of
 the lowest taxonomic classification) was greater than two (1) or not
 (0)<br>days2first_nonself_citation = number of days to the first
 non-self-citation (i.e., an article authored by none of the authors of the
 focal article)<br>days2first_self_citation = number of days to the
 first self-citation<br>fig_proportion = the proportion of figures in
 color<br>altMetricBin = if the Altmetric Attention score was a 0 (0)
 or greater (1) <em>Citing Dataset
 (.csv)- </em>We generated a database of all the articles that cited
 the published <em>JWM</em> articles we used for our
 analysis between 2011 and 2015 cite_link = the citing
 articles DOI link<br>uid = unique identifier for the original JWM
 article<br>doi_orig = DOI link for the original JWM
 article<br>cite_title = title of the citing
 article<br>cite_authors = author names of the citing
 article<br>cite_date = the date the citing article cited one of the
 original JWM articles