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Open Access: Unlimited Web Based Literature Searching

sennoma — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:10:00 -0500

misleading title -- actually a review of literature on whether OA articles are cited more than TA ones Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, oa, scientometics, bibliometrics,

SSRN-Whose Metrics? On Building Citation, Usage and Access Metrics as Information Service for Scholars by Chris Armbruster

sennoma — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:39:00 -0400

As the Internet has enhanced the collection and provision of citation, usage and access metrics, the challenge lies neither in the technology nor the method, but in constructing databases that deliver services of value to the scholar. However, the development of metrics has hitherto been driven by the needs of external research assessment (governments and funders), while publishers and libraries have focused on their own needs (e.g. journal impact and usage factors). Scholars often criticize research assessment and the use of particular metrics as a zero-sum game whose undesirable consequences far outweigh the benefits. However, this is not to be confused with a general prejudice against metrics, which are principally compatible with the scholarly recognition and rewards system. But it does indicate that current metric information services often do not serve the needs of scholars. The question everybody should be asking is: What kind of metric information services would serve scholars? The argument proceeds in six steps. First, the problematic and controversial nature of assessment metrics is discussed. Second, the limited value of current metric information services is outlined. Third, the notion of metrics as research information services is clarified. Fourth, some examples of such services are offered. Fifth, the potential value is sketched from the perspective of a postdoc. Sixth, it is indicated that societies and publishers could begin building more metric information services since tried-and-tested technology and methods are available already. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics, scholarlycommunication, publishing,

Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovatino in Communication Paradigms and Technologies; 13th Intl Conf on Electronic Publishing

sennoma — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:06:00 -0400

Connecting Readers with Open Access Resources: The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group Building a Digital Library with Learning Materials Creation of an International Digital Library of Manuscripts: seamless access to data from heterogeneous resources (ENRICH Project) Exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models A Journal on the Web: What We Are Not, What We Do Not Want Understanding how Students and Faculty REALLY use E-Books: The UK National E-Books Observatory A publishing system to extract and represent the knowledge content of scientific articles on Health Science in machine-processable format Self-Archiving in practice: What do the researchers say and is there any pain alleviation? Scoping Study on Issues Relating to Quality-Control Measures within the Scholarly Communication Process Overlay Publications: a functional overview of the concept The PROBADO-Framework: Content-Based Queries for non-textual Documents PEER: Publishing and the Ecology of European Research PLoS One: background, future development, and article-level metrics Targeted knowledge: interaction and rich user experience towards a scholarly communication that “lets” Economic sustainability during transition: the case of scholarly publishing Automated Support for a Collaborative System to Organize a Collection using Facets Experimenting with the Trial of a Research Data Audit: Some Preliminary Findings about Data Types, Access to Data and Factors for Long Term Preservation Scientific publications on Web 3.0 Integrating Online Publications and Scholarly Discourse in the Context of Digital Libraries Incorporating Semantics and Metadata as Part of the Article Authoring Process Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals Building a Semantic Digital Library for the Municipality of Milan Rethinking Critical Editions of Fragmentary Texts by Ontologies Bibliometric factor maps for knowledge discovery in digital libraries Digital Futures: Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.money, oa.numbers,

Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis (Scarecrow Press, Inc.)

sennoma — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:09:00 -0400

Can the methods of science be directed toward science itself? How did it happen that scientists, scientific documents, and their bibliographic links came to be regarded as mathematical variables in abstract models of scientific communication? What is the role of quantitative analyses of scientific and technical documentation in current science policy and management? Bibliometrics and Citation Analysis: From the Science Citation Index to Cybermetrics answers these questions through a comprehensive overview of theories, techniques, concepts, and applications in the interdisciplinary and steadily growing field of bibliometrics. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

Inter Research » ESEP » v8 » n1

sennoma — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:45:00 -0400

Browman HI, Stergiou KI INTRODUCTION: Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely Campbell P Escape from the impact factor Lawrence PA Lost in publication: how measurement harms science Todd PA, Ladle RJ Hidden dangers of a ‘citation culture’ Taylor M, Perakakis P, Trachana V The siege of science Cheung WWL The economics of post-doc publishing Tsikliras AC Chasing after the high impact Zitt M, Bassecoulard E Challenges for scientometric indicators: data demining, knowledge flows measurements and diversity issues Harzing AWK, van der Wal R Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis Pauly D, Stergiou KI Re-interpretation of ‘influence weight’ as a citation-based Index of New Knowledge (INK) Giske J Benefitting from bibliometry Butler L Using a balanced approach to bibliometrics: quantitative performance measures in the Australian Research Quality Framework Bornmann L, Mutz R, Neuhaus C, Daniel HD Citation counts for research evaluation: standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting results Harnad S Validating research performance metrics against peer rankings Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, deathtotheimpactfactor,

PLoS ONE: Looking for Landmarks: The Role of Expert Review and Bibliometric Analysis in Evaluating Scientific Publication Outputs

sennoma — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:41:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, peerreview,

Usage-based measurements of journal quality - research project enters its second stage | UKSG

sennoma — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:53:00 -0400

In 2007 the United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG), in association with the online usage metrics organisation COUNTER, published the results of a wide-ranging study which explored how online journal usage statistics might form the basis of a new metric of journal quality. The study combined a web-based survey of opinion with a series of in-depth interviews with stakeholders from the author, publisher and librarian communities. The aim of these twin avenues of research was to examine the ways in which journal quality is currently assessed, and the degree to which any additional usage-based metrics might prove valuable to each stakeholder community, along with practical ways in which such metrics might be derived and constructed to provide the maximum utility for all, within defined resource constraints. Building upon the encouraging reactions revealed in the market research, Stage 2 of the project is developing a programme of data modelling and analysis that will use real usage data from a number of content providers, with the aim of identifying potential candidate metrics for longer term scaled up testing. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

The (Statistical) Significance of the Impact Factor ~~ (A Computer Scientist in a Business School)

sennoma — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:55:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under impactfactor, scientometrics, bibliometrics,

Article-Level Metrics at PLoS (presentation to NISO) « everyONE – the PLoS ONE community blog

sennoma — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:26:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under oaos.talks, scientometrics, bibliometrics,

PLoS ONE: The e-Index, Complementing the h-Index for Excess Citations

sennoma — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:14:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under bibliometrics, scientometrics, deathtotheimpactfactor,

OAN: Eliminating quality bias in explaining the OA impact advantage

sennoma — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:40:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under oa, scientometrics, bibliometrics,

Assessing the Impact of Research

sennoma — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:28:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

Latest journal ranking in the biological sciences - FriendFeed

sennoma — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:01:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

Prediction of citation counts for clinical articles at two years using data available within three weeks of publication: retrospective cohort study

sennoma — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:46:00 -0400

Conclusion Citation counts can be reliably predicted at two years using data within three weeks of publication. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

What's Wrong with Citation Counts?

sennoma — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:28:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

OAN: Toward standards for article usage statistics

sennoma — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:32:00 -0400

PIRUS — Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics: Final Report, report, January 2009. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.) From the executive summary: The aim of PIRUS (Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) was to develop COUNTER-compliant standards and usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator, repository, etc.,) that hosts online journal articles and will enable the usage of research outputs to be recorded, reported and consolidated at a global level in a standard way. ... Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

PLoS ONE: Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science

sennoma — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:02:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

IndicaSciences - Impact factor : a valid measure of journal quality ?

sennoma — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:25:00 -0400

Conclusions : Impact factor may be a reasonable indicator of quality for general medical journals. Tagged by sennoma under scientometrics, bibliometrics,

Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research -- Seglen 314 (7079): 497 -- BMJ

sennoma — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:24:00 -0400

Evaluating scientific quality is a notoriously difficult problem which has no standard solution. Ideally, published scientific results should be scrutinised by true experts in the field and given scores for quality and quantity according to established rules. In practice, however, what is called peer review is usually performed by committees with general competence rather than with the specialist's insight that is needed to assess primary research data. Committees tend, therefore, to resort to secondary criteria like crude publication counts, journal prestige, the reputation of authors and institutions, and estimated importance and relevance of the research field,1 making peer review as much of a lottery as of a rational process.2 3 Tagged by sennoma under peerreview, scientometrics, bibliometrics,

Scientific and Technical Serials Holdings Optimization: A LSU Serials Redesign Project Exercise

sennoma — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:24:00 -0400

Tagged by sennoma under serialscrisis, publishing, oa.money, scientometrics, bibliometrics,