« In partnership with the University of California Curation Center at the California Digital Library,and DataONE, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new project to develop data-level metrics. This project is funded by an EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, titled…
« Taylor & Francis recently published their annual Open Access Survey. This is a survey they conducted of the authors they published during 2012 (…)
What interested us about the survey were the responses concerning usage statistics.
« Abstract
We analyse the main features of the third edition of Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), released in June 2014, focusing on its more important changes, strengths, and weaknesses. Additionally, we present some figures that outline the dimensions of this new edition, and we compare them to…
« The rapidly evolving academic research and publishing community is seeing many digital developments, one of which is being compared to « the Wild West. » The altmetric movement proposed an alternative to the popular journal impact factor and personal citation indices such as the h-index. From this new frontier, Euan…
« …via the Journal Analyzer functionality in Scopus.
The Journal Analyzer allows you to select up to 10 journals for comparison; the results are uploaded into graphs, making it easy to see how journals perform relative to each other.
Additionally the SNIP, SJR and now…
« Amidst heavy scepticism over the role of metrics in research assessments, Martin Smith [Professor of Politics at the University of York] wonders whether the flaws of the current system have been fully recognised. There is no system of research assessment that is perfect and peer review may well be a better,…
