« A group of research funders, sector bodies and infrastructure experts are working in partnership to promote the responsible use of research metrics.
(…) Responsible metrics can be understood in terms of the following dimensions:
Robustness – basing metrics on the best possible data in terms of…« Like their subscription-based counterparts, Open Access articles’ metadata is essential to measuring its impact in the academic world.
Open Access (or OA) is a result of the digital publishing revolution. When print was augmented or replaced with interconnected digital documents, scholars, researchers, and librarians naturally turned…
« Le colloque Innométriques aura lieu le 17 octobre 2016 au CNRS, campus Gérard Mégie. Il vise à vise à répondre aux attentes de l’ESR sur les usages des bases et outils de métrique.
Le pré-programme est disponible. (…) »
« Research libraries assist scholars in demonstrating the value of their scholarly output through citation metrics and other measures. As the forms of scholarly communication change, so do the metrics used for assessing them. The services libraries offer must evolve in concert with these changes. This talk will provide…
« Bookmetrix, a new platform launched at last year’s London Book Fair, celebrates its first year of operation. Bookmetrix reports how often an individual book or chapter is cited, mentioned, reviewed or shared and read online. (…) »
« Après quinze mois de consultation et de collecte de données, les auteurs de cet avis du Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) examinent les usages et les limites des indicateurs (metrics) de la recherche et explorent l’utilisation de ceux-ci au sein des institutions et à travers…
« Last week, we announced that the 2014 journal metrics values were launched and freely available on www.journalmetrics.com. This week, we’re happy to report that the 2014 Journal Metrics values for the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Impact per…
As digital technologies re-shape traditional teaching methods in higher education, the MOOC is finding its feet, reports Rebecca Pool (…)
Accelerating the advance of scholarly communications
Amy Bourke rounds up proceedings at the STM…
« Alors que l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux de chercheurs est toujours croissante, que les éditeurs s’y intéressent de plus en plus près et que les formations se développent, il nous semblait intéressant de refaire un point sur la question, un peu plus d’un an après un premier article
