« Silicon Valley’s hoodie-wearing tech entrepreneurs are the poster kids of innovation. But the innovators who are really changing the world are more likely to wear labcoats and hold government-related jobs in Grenoble, Munich or Tokyo. That’s the conclusion of Reuters’ Top 25 Global Innovators – Government,…
« Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from early stages of research planning to the later stages of publication. Even with initiatives against the use of impact…
« In the humanities and social sciences, bibliometric methods for the assessment of research performance are (so far) less common. The current study takes a concrete example in an attempt to evaluate a research institute from the area of social sciences and humanities with the help of data from…
Cette publication clôt le travail d’une année réalisé par les experts de la commission de normalisation en Information et Documentation dédiée à la Qualité, statistiques et évaluation des résultats, et a pour but de mettre en lumière la norme internationale ISO 16439 intitulée « Methods and procedures for…
« (…) Comparison of 2016 Bibliometric Indicators to 2014 Indicators.The Science & Engineering Indicators (SEI) provide a series of quantitative data on science and engineering activities in the United States (U.S.), along with contextual data on other countries. The SEI report and accompanying documents are prepared by the National…
« What does it mean to have meaningful metrics in today’s complex higher education landscape? With a foreword by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem, this highly engaging and activity-laden book serves to introduce readers to the fast-paced world of research metrics from the unique perspective of academic librarians and…
« The results of a recent survey to appear in Learned Publishing highlight how the peer review process—when research is evaluated by experts before it’s published—might be improved to better support reviewers who lend their time and expertise. Key findings from the study include the need for additional training…
» C’est un classement d’universités qui pourrait vite « changer la donne, devenir l’un de ceux qui vont compter dans le monde », prédit Philippe Oster, directeur de la communication d’HEC.
LinkedIn, le puissant réseau social professionnel qui revendique 400 millions d’abonnés à travers la planète,…
