« The need for research universities to understand expectations for scholarly publishing across a wide array of disciplines is vital to their self-understanding and to decision-making arising from that understanding. Administrators, staff, and faculty members serve on college-level executive committees, provost-level promotion and tenure committees, and committees that oversee campus-wide recognition…
« Open access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on institutional…
« The principal goal of the research study is to analyze the transparency of a selection of academic journals based on an analysis model with 20 indicators grouped into 6 parameters. Given the evident interest in and commitment to transparency among quality academic journals and researchers’ difficulties in choosing journals that…
« Bibliométrie, scientométrie, infométrie, webométrie… Tous ces termes ont un suffixe commun, qui renvoie à l’idée d’une mesure, d’une quantité, d’un dénombrement, associée ou appliquée à la recherche scientifique. Mais que cherche-t-on à dénombrer au juste ? Et surtout, dans quel(s) but(s) ?
Depuis son « invention » dans les années 1960,…
« Advances in science and technology depend on the work of research teams and the publication of results through peer-reviewed articles representing a growing socio-economic resource. Current methods to mine the scientific literature regarding a field of interest focus on content, but the workforce credited by authorship remains largely unexplored. Notably,…
« Citation indices are tools used by the academic community for research and research evaluation which aggregate scientific literature output and measure impact by collating citation counts. Citation indices help measure the interconnections between scientific papers but fall short because they fail to communicate contextual information about a citation. The usage…
« The 18th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference is held on 12–15 July 2021 and organized by KU Leuven in close collaboration with the university of Antwerp under the auspices of ISSI the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. (…)
The goal of ISSI2021 is to provide an…
« Carrying out bibliometric reports is one of the common tasks performed by librarians and practitioners within the framework of their professional duties. The emergence of novel data sources, the need to measure new research activities and the growing demand for fairer and more equitable evaluation within the framework of the…
« Despite the centrality of disciplinary classifications in bibliometric analyses, it is not well known how the choice of disciplinary classification influences bibliometric representations of research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH). This is especially crucial when using data from national databases. Therefore, we examine the differences in the disciplinary…
« Lien: https://pdoehle.github.io/bibliometrics-for-librarians/
Contenu: Professeur assistant à l’Oklahoma State University Library, P. Doehle a conçu un parcours de formation à la bibliométrie pour les professionnels. Des exercices et des apports méthodologiques sont proposés. (…) »
