« Academic and public libraries at times serve overlapping populations, including students, job seekers, adult learners, ESL learners, and low-income individuals, and play vital roles in supporting and enriching their local communities. Among their many services, libraries connect community members to critical information related to their basic needs while providing reference…
« Open Science (OS) aims, in part, to drive greater societal impact of academic research. Government, funder and institutional policies state that it should further democratize research and increase learning and awareness, evidence-based policy-making, the relevance of research to society’s problems, and public trust in research. (…) »
« Meta-research and research evaluation are very broad subjects, and their interrelationship cannot be adequately covered in a single chapter. Instead, this chapter examines the current state and future directions of meta-research for research evaluation through the lens of the individual researcher: even then, this discussion is necessarily selective, and omission…
« In this study we analyse the key driving factors of preprints in enhancing scholarly communication. To this end we use four groups of metrics, one referring to scholarly communication and based on bibliometric indicators (Web of Science and Scopus citations), while the others reflect usage (usage counts in Web of…
« La sociologue des data, Evelyn Ruppert, lance un site d’analyse transdisciplinaire sur les big data. Pas de technologies de stockage ni de traitement informatique au programme, mais des conversations scientifiques autour des impacts sociaux et culturels de ce phénomène. (…) »
« We measure the impact of « altmetrics » field by deploying altmetrics indicators using the data from Google Scholar, Twitter, Mendeley, Facebook, Google-plus, CiteULike, Blogs and Wiki during 2010- 2014. To capture the social impact of scientific publications, we propose an index called alt-index, analogues to h-index. Across the deployed…
» Abstract
Altmetrics gives us novel ways of detecting the use and consumption of scholarly publishing beyond formal citation, and it is tempting to treat these measurements as proxies for social impact. However, altmetrics is still too shallow and too narrow, and needs to increase its scope…
