« Download rates of academic journals have joined citation counts as commonly used indicators of the value of journal subscriptions. While citations reflect worldwide influence, the value of a journal subscription to a single library is more reliably measured by the rate at which it is downloaded by local users. If…
« Introduction
Tous ceux qui ont eu un jour à se pencher sur les statistiques d’accès à la documentation numérique le savent : rien n’est plus délicat à manipuler que des chiffres ou des ratios qui, derrière leur apparente objectivité, posent des questions méthodologiques importantes.
Un professionnel averti en valant deux,…
« The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) – a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal – has been widely critiqued as a measure of individual academic performance. However, it is unclear whether these criticisms and high profile declarations, such as
« Agences européennes d’évaluation, le Hcéres (France), l’Anvur (Italie) et l’AEI (Espagne) ont signé le 1er avril 2019 un accord-cadre de coopération pour l’évaluation d’infrastructures européennes de recherche, créant ainsi le consortium Eriec (European Research Infrastructure Evaluation Consortium). (…) »
« Our library’s digital asset management system (DAMS) was no longer meeting digital asset management requirements or expanding scholarly communication needs. We formed a multiunit task force (TF) to (1) survey and identify existing and emerging institutional needs; (2) research available DAMS (open source and proprietary) and assess their potential fit;…
« 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…
« Lifecycle models for research data are often abstract and simple. This comes at the danger of oversimplifying the complex concepts of research data management. The analysis of 90 different lifecycle models lead to two approaches to assess the quality of these models. While terminological issues make direct comparisons of models…
« 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…
« Quantitative metrics are playing an increasingly important role in the assessment of academic careers. Wilhelm Krull, Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation, considers other characteristics to be more important. (…) »
