« The Leiden manifesto for research Metrics, Nature, 520, 429-431
by Diana Hicks, Paul Wouters, Ludo Waltman, Sarah de Rijcke & Ismael Rafols.
http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/ (…)
Version française par Ghislaine Filliatreau, directrice de l’Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques du HCERES. (télécharger…
« Scientists at CABI will be able to gauge the impact of their agricultural and environmental research in several unique ways by partnering with PlumX from Plum™ Analytics, an EBSCO company. As part of a six-month pilot program, CABI is using PlumX metrics to measure…
« On December 4, Scopus released two important new features. The Scopus header has been redesigned to increase the interoperability with SciVal, Elsevier’s benchmarking and analytics product. Also a new journal metric called Impact per Publication (IPP) has been added to allow researchers and librarians better compare and evaluate…
« Voici la présentation faite par Frédéric Clavert, membre du Blog Zotero francophone, à la journée « Regard(s) sur les logiciels bibliographiques, au carrefour des usages et des innovations« .
« Since its launch in the fall of 2004, Scopus has established itself as the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. In honor of the 10th anniversary of Elsevier’s bibliographical database, Research Trends recently published a Special Issue that looks back on…
« At the October Executive Board meeting in Lausanne the LIBER Executive Board agreed to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) (…)
LIBER recognises the pressing need highlighted by DORA to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by…
« Scholarly and social impacts of scientific publications could be measured by various metrics, including article usage, Mendeley readership and Altmetric scores, etc. But what is the relationship amongst the different metrics? Previous studies show there is low correlation between altmetrics and citation, but how do altmetrics compare to other…
« More than half of leading publishers see attention metrics as next new standard; Publishers identify lack of standardized metrics and research as biggest hurdles (…)
The report outlines DCN’s position statements in support of time-based metrics, specifically:
– Time-based metrics enforce the need for…
« The Scopus Cited Reference Expansion, announced in March, is well on its way. Our October 23 release saw the expansion of the h-index publication window to 1970. The previous publication window was from 1996 onwards (…) »
« Via un anodin tweet à l’occasion de la Foire de Francfort, le cyberlibraire et fournisseur de supports de lecture électronique Kobo a publié un passionnant livre blanc (.pdf) sur les Big Data appliquées au monde de l’édition.
