12/12/2019
« Support du Stage « Médiatiser la bibliométrie auprès des chercheurs : au delà de l’évaluation »
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11/12/2019
« A statistical analysis of usage data for open-access ebooks from two different publishers and from a free ebook distribution platform indicates that open-access ebook usage is distributed following log-normal statistics, and meaningful analysis results after calculating the logarithm of the download counts. To assess usage impact from raw usage data…
03/12/2019
« There is a growing movement to review the recognition and rewards systems for academics in Europe, notably in the transition to Open Science. Since research is global, the European University Association (EUA) and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) are joining forces and would like to welcome you…
20/11/2019
« No single metric of faculty scholarly activity can fully capture every individual contribution. For that reason, evaluating a single professor’s scholarly work requires a nuanced, multifaceted, and individually focused assessment. However, for a contemporary sketch of the collective scholarly impact of a law school faculty, citation measurements in the legal…
21/10/2019
« (…) This study investigates and compares the systematic search qualities of 28 widely used academic search systems, including Google Scholar, PubMed and Web of Science. A novel, query‐based method tests how well users are able to interact and retrieve records with each system. The study is the first to show…
11/09/2019
« Despite its undisputed position as the biggest social media platform, Facebook has never entered the main stage of altmetrics research. In this study, we argue that the lack of attention by altmetrics researchers is not due to a lack of relevant activity on the platform, but because of the challenges…
06/09/2019
« (…) The subscription monopoly has been broken. Content is a commodity; it is ubiquitous. What we are paying for by subscribing to journals is as much convenience now as it is access, and the valuation paradigm has to change. The cost per use model is too simplistic a measure as…
03/09/2019
« A multitude of factors are responsible for the overall quality of scientific papers, including readability, linguistic quality, fluency,semantic complexity, and of course domain-specific technical factors. These factors vary from one field of study to another. In this paper, we propose a measure and method for assessing the overall quality of…
23/08/2019
« The ways in which journals are indexed online is essential to how they can be searched for and found. Inclusion in certain indexes is also closely linked to quality assessment, with research funders often requiring their grantees to publish in outlets listed in certain indexes. In this post Danielle Padula…
18/07/2019
« Chaque année, les rankings des universités fleurissent, suscitant le même émoi que la parution des grands guides gastronomiques. Qui sera dans le « top 50 » ? Avons-nous progressé ? Où en sont les universités voisines (amies, néanmoins concurrentes) ? Ces interrogations agitent les responsables des établissements d’enseignement supérieur. (…)