Metrics

« Impact metrics are a ubiquitous and contentious part of scholarly publishing. Although theories of methods for objectively measuring scientific activity have existed for hundreds of years, the metrics we use…

« In late 2023, while putting together a large-scale report on scholarly journal market trends, I was struggling to quantify how much the market had consolidated and if there were any…

« Since the launch of the Journal Impact Factor half a century ago in 1975, the bibliometric assessment of research outputs has proven a lasting and important —…

« The CoARA Working Group on Responsible Metrics and Indicators (RMI WG) has launched a new survey to explore how metrics and indicators are currently used in research assessment across CoARA…

« We have many great activities planned for the coming year, collaborating with individuals and organizations that share our drive to advance responsible data metrics and data evaluation.
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« In this contribution we present a data-driven approach to monitoring and assessing the state of open and FAIR data in an interdisciplinary, federated research ecosystem. The project is part of…

« The present paper makes a systematic review of 131 articles on research productivity basing upon a model developed by Denyer and Tranfield. The current review paper analyzed the quantitative and…

« Scholarly data has become one of the most important components of Open Science. Governments and funders are mandating that researchers deposit their data in repositories and supply supporting metadata. This…

« Carrying out bibliometric reports is one of the common tasks performed by librarians and practitioners within the framework of their professional duties. The emergence of novel data sources, the need…

« In April 2020, the OAPEN Library moved to a new platform, based on DSpace 6. During the same period, IRUS-UK started working on the deployment of Release 5 of the…