Stick To Your Ribs: The Impact Factor’s Greatest Hits (and Misses)
Yesterday saw the release of the 2013 Impact Factors for scholarly journals. We present a look back at some favorite posts examining the Impact Factor.
NISO Vets Research on Altmetrics
NISO has released the results of their year long study of Altmetrics in draft form for comment.
PLOS ONE Output Falls 25 Percent
Publication output for the largest journal in science continues to fall, just not as fast as leading indicators would predict.
Happy Anniversary: 50 Years of the Science Citation Index
This week marks the golden anniversary of the Science Citation Index, introduced by Eugene Garfield in 1964.
Altmetrics: Mistaking the Means for the End
Should attention metrics play any role whatsoever in researcher assessment?
Reinventing the Impact Factor for the 21st century
If we were to build a citation reporting system today, what would it look like? In this post, I propose a solution that would do away with a separate Journal Citation Report (JCR) and propose a suite of services built around the Web of Science, directed to the needs of journal editors and publishers.
Altmetrics Boosted by EBSCO's Acquisition of Plum Analytics
EBSCO has recently acquired altmetrics startup Plum Analytics. What will this mean for both companies and altmetrics in general?
Taking Stock In the Kitchen: A Look Back at 2013
A look back at 2013 in The Scholarly Kitchen.
What is Kudos? An Interview with David Sommer, Co-Founder
If there was a word of the year competition for Scholarly Publishing, #Altmetrics would be a favorite to win. David Sommer, co-founder and Director of Kudos discusses how this new service could offer usable measurements of the array of article promotion and influencing activities undertaken by scholars.
This Takes the Prize — Editor of New Luxury OA Journal Boycotts Luxury Subscription Journals
The editor of eLife, on the eve of accepting his Nobel Prize, publishes an article designed to give his journal a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, the errors, lack of disclosure of his incentives, and inappropriate dismissal of incentives made the social graph light up with derision.
Driving Altmetrics Performance Through Marketing — A New Differentiator for Scholarly Journals?
Does the rise of altmetrics mean a shift in the journal publishing landscape where marketing and publicity efforts surrounding articles take precedence?
The Persistent Lure of the Impact Factor–Even for PLOS ONE
Despite a growing anti-Impact Factor movement, a quick look at readership and search query data shows a continued growth of interest in knowing journals’ Impact Factors, even for the journal where it may be the least relevant.
Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Bibliometrics in an Age of Abundance
Chef Phil Davis discusses the current state of the art in analysis of citation, usage, and other information sources, and some of the opportunities and challenges for bibliometrics in a data-rich era.
Scholarly Kitchen Podcast: Jason Priem on Altmetrics, Today and Tomorrow
An advocate for alternative metrics for article impact takes stock of where they are now, and where they’re going.
The Rise and Fall of PLOS ONE's Impact Factor (2012 = 3.730)
Are we witnessing the decline of the open access megajournal and a return to a discipline-based model of publishing?