« The Scholarly Communications Lab’s Metrics Literacies project, funded by the Social Sciences Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, aimed to test the effectiveness of different multimedia formats for educating researchers about scholarly metrics. (…) »
« What do we really mean by a « good » scientific journal? Do we care more about the short-time impact of our papers, or about the chance that they will still be read and cited on the long run? Here I show that, by regarding a journal as a « virtual scientist » that…
« Ce MOOC a pour objectif de donner aux chercheurs, professionnels de la recherche en santé et sciences du vivant et futurs chercheurs français et francophones les éléments nécessaires pour s’adapter à l’évolution des pratiques de recherche en santé (de la gestion à la communication et à la diffusion de…
« Dans cette chronique de la Revue international PME, le professeur Yves Gingras de l’UQAM décrit les dangers que comporte l’usage simpliste qui tend à se répandre par l’utilisation mécanique d’indicateurs bibliométriques censés mesurer, de façon « objective », la productivité et l’impact des chercheurs sur le plan…
« – Avoid boring and poorly written papers
– Four reasons why the h-index is here to stay
– Google Scholar is filled with junk science (…) »
« The Scopus Cited Reference Expansion, announced in March, is well on its way. Our October 23 release saw the expansion of the h-index publication window to 1970. The previous publication window was from 1996 onwards (…) »
« Abstract
We analyse the main features of the third edition of Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), released in June 2014, focusing on its more important changes, strengths, and weaknesses. Additionally, we present some figures that outline the dimensions of this new edition, and we compare them to…
« … Yesterday we brought you the first of two posts on the h-index. Since many of the questions the Scopus team receives from users are related to the h-index and how it is calculated, we thought it was a worthy topic for two posts. Today’s post, Part…
« … The h-index is an index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. In Scopus, the h-index is not a static value; it is calculated live on a set of results each time you look it…
