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 today were largely developed in the second half of the twentieth century. (…) »

« 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 periods that showed more rapid consolidation than others. I wrote about those efforts here in The Scholarly…

« 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 — if flawed — method of quantifying impact. When considering new or non-traditional output forms, trying to ascertain their use through…

« 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 member institutions and beyond. Open to all research institutions, the survey aims to investigate the status quo of indicator use…

« 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.
Here is a preview of what we’ll be doing in 2025:(…) »

« 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 a multi-method approach by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) to monitor and assess the state of open and FAIR data…

« 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 qualitative dimensions of the sample literature in the field of research productivity. (…) »

« 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 extra work will only get done if researchers are given proper credit for their data outputs. But, how prepared is…

« 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 to measure new research activities and the growing demand for fairer and more equitable evaluation within the framework of the…

« 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 COUNTER Code of Practice (R5). This is, therefore, a good moment to compare two widely used usage metrics – R5…