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# Operationalization in PathOS Case Studies

This indicator has been operationalized in the following case studies:
- Impact of Artefact Reuse in COVID-19 Publications
- Impact of Open Access Routes on Topic Persistence
- Portuguese Repository Infrastructure RCAAP
- ELIXIR´s Bioinformatics Resources

Further details are available in Deliverable D3.3 of PathOS, accessible through the [PathOS Zenodo community](https://zenodo.org/communities/pathos/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest).

# Known correlates

As already clarified, citations are affected in general by field and publication year, and these are quite clearly causal effects. There are many other factors that correlate with citations [@onodera2015], for which most it is unclear whether the effect is causal. One factor that is consistently associated with more citations is collaboration [@larivière2015], which is potentially driven by network effects [@schulz]. In addition, there is evidence for a clear causal effect of the journal where something is published on citations [@traag2021].
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Sometimes, normalisation also considers the “document type” of publications, differentiating for example between editorial letters, research articles or reviews. This would be reasonable if we expect the document type to be unrelated to the impact, as we expect for field of research and year of publication. Whether this is the case can be debated.

[^field-overlap]:
That is, we assume that the used field classifications do not overlap. Some field classifications do overlap, in which case the normalisation becomes more complicated. One approach to this is to fractionalise publications per field, and then perform normalisation within each field separately, and then average across fields afterwards [@waltman2011].
That is, we assume that the used field classifications do not overlap. Some field classifications do overlap, in which case the normalisation becomes more complicated. One approach to this is to fractionalise publications per field, and then perform normalisation within each field separately, and then average across fields afterwards [@waltman2011].