In this episode, Scholarly Kitchen chef Phil Davis, a specialist in statistical analysis of readership and citation data, talks with podcast host Stewart Wills about the modern state of bibliometrics, including the opportunities and dilemmas of dealing with the vast amounts of usage, citation, and other data that can be gleaned from the Web, some of the common statistical pitfalls he’s seen in published work, and where the big questions lie for the science of bibliometrics in our increasingly data-rich era.
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In this interview, I refer to the following Scholarly Kitchen posts:
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/12/12/gaming-google-scholar-citations-made-simple-and-easy/
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/09/29/journal-usage-factor-think-locally-act-locally/
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/03/25/can-f1000-recommendations-predict-future-citations/
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/04/24/peer-repository-study-recast/
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/10/15/mapping-the-flow-of-rejected-manuscripts/
