« Altmetrics can be used to understand impact beyond citations, particularly for digitized collections. As cultural institutions look to pursue more active engagement with communities of practice, altmetrics help archivists understand the conversations happening in real time that will allow them to provide access to the most relevant materials. Through the…
« La liste des 100 articles 2018 ayant eu les scores Altmetric les plus élevés est intéressante (décembre 2017 à fin novembre 2018). Sa consultation est aisée avec des filtres. Depuis 2013, la société Altmetric publie la liste des top 100 articles de l’année ayant eu les scores Altmetric les plus…
« Collaborations are an integral part of scientific research and publishing. In the past, access to large-scale corpora has limited the ways in which questions about collaborations could be investigated. However, with improvements in data/metadata quality and access, it is possible to explore the idea of research collaboration in ways beyond…
« We aimed to assess which factors correlate with collaborative behavior and whether such behavior associates with scientific impact (citations and becoming a principal investigator). We used the R index which is defined for each author as log(Np)/log(I1), where I1 is the number of co-authors who appear in at least I1…
« Quelles publications sont Open Access ? Combien de fois sont-elles citées ? Font-elles l’objet de reprise sur Twitter ? Ont-elles des datasets associés ? Autant de questions qui nécessitent d’interroger plusieurs sources avant de pouvoir commencer l’analyse. Mais si on ne maîtrise pas certains outils ou langages informatiques, la collecte et la compilation…
« Academic librarians, especially in the field of scholarly communication, are often expected to understand and engage with research impact indicators. However, much of the current literature speculates about how academic librarians are using and implementing research impact indicators in their practice. (…) »
« Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although altmetrics are already in use as impact or attention metrics in different contexts, it is still not clear whether they really capture or reflect societal impact. This study is based on altmetrics, citation counts, research…
« The use of scholarly metrics is one of the most challenging in the current research field. The proliferation of new models of scholarly communication, the changes in the research assessment field and the extensive use of social media applications have shaken the foundations of traditional metrics paradigms.
Open Science — which…
« S’il y a une crise du livre savant, ce serait moins une crise d’origine budgétaire qu’une crise de son usage. Les livres ne seraient pas victimes de coupes budgétaires, mais du désintérêt des universitaires. Une rapide analyse bibliométrique va nous permettre de valider cette hypothèse en répondant à cette question…
« The launch of Google Scholar (GS) marked the beginning of a revolution in the scientific information market. This search engine, unlike traditional databases, automatically indexes information from the academic web. Its ease of use, together with its wide coverage and fast indexing speed, have made it the first tool most…
