« Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate innovation, announced the 2018 update of its Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The latest update incorporates new analyses that offer richer, more detailed information to enhance users’ understanding of journal performance. These additional insights will…
« Twitter has arguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early indicators of citations as well as measures of societal impact. This chapter provides an overview of Twitter activity as the basis for…
« Academic affinities are one of the most fundamental hidden dynamics that drive scientific development. Some affinities are actual, and consequently can be measured through classical academic metrics such as co-authoring. Other affinities are potential, and therefore do not have visible traces in information systems; for instance, some peers may share…
« The UK Research Councils have today (Wednesday 7th February) published a statement on the responsible use of metrics and signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
The Research Councils want to encourage active discussion by the research community on this policy area and, where appropriate, set out good…
« FAIRness » – the degree to which a digital resource is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable – is aspirational, yet the means of reaching it may be defined by increased adherence to measurable indicators. We report on the production of a core set of semi-quantitative metrics having universal applicability for the…
« (…) Five years ago at the American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting in San Francisco, leading cell biologists, editors and publishers dissatisfied with the near exclusive reliance on journal impact factor as the primary means of measuring success in academia began creation of what would several months later become…
« In 1830, Charles Babbage had an unusual idea. Exasperated by how little recognition science was getting in England, the computer pioneer and scientific provocateur suggested that quantifying authorship might be a way to identify scientific eminence.
Like many of Babbage’s radical ideas, this one persuaded almost nobody, but it eventually…
« 30 novembre 2017 – CNRS – Campus Gérard-Mégie
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La Journée « Innométriques 2017 » propose de réunir la communauté de l’ESR pour partager une réflexion sur les usages des bases et outils de métriques de la publication scientifique et sur les innovations induites par la diversité et la…
« Les bibliothèques universitaires mettent de plus en plus l’accent sur la communication savante. Ce faisant, les bibliothécaires se demandent comment mieux appuyer le corps professoral en ce qui a trait au repérage, à l’interprétation et à l’utilisation appropriée d’indicateurs bibliométriques. Très peu de recherche portant sur la perspective des chercheurs…
« This tenth edition is more than ever a reference tool for all those involved in higher education and research as well as for everyone who aspires to greater knowledge and understanding of what characterises the world of learning and knowledge – the source of the growth and development of our…
