« Altmetrics are an alternative to traditional measurement of the impact of published resources. While altmetrics are primarily used by researchers and institutions to measure the impact of scholarly publications online, they can also be used by archives to measure the impact of their diverse online holdings, including digitized and born-digital…
« 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…
« The Open Data Barometer aims to uncover the true prevalence and impact of open data initiatives around the world. It analyses global trends, and provides comparative data on countries and regions using an in-depth methodology that combines contextual data, technical assessments and secondary indicators. (…) »
« The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has made a 2-year, $747K award to the California Digital Library, DataCite and DataONE to support collection of usage and citation metrics for data objects. Building on pilot work,…
« Support du stage « De la bibliométrie aux altmetrics«
Métriques traditionnelles Contexte Acteurs et outils Les Altmetrics Nouvelles formes : de production, de communication, de mesures Comment ça marche Acteurs et outils Limites et perspectives »« Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are increasingly used to estimate the broader social impacts of scholarship. Such efforts, however, may produce highly misleading results, as the entities that participate in conversations about science on these platforms are largely unknown. For instance, if altmetric activities…
« The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research. We discuss measures to represent the public availability of articles along with their archival location, licenses, access costs, and supporting information. Calculations illustrating…
« (…) CiteScore est un indicateur de notoriété de revues et d’autres publications en séries (séries d’actes de congrès, séries d’ouvrages). Il a été créé en décembre 2016 par l’éditeur Elsevier pour sa base de données bibliographique multidisciplinaire Scopus.(…) »
