Bringing back a post from 2018, as funders increasingly demand measurements of “real world” impact from researchers. Does this steer us toward the same traps we’re already in from the ways we already do research assessment and is this short-term thinking problematic for the future of science?
Users (human and machine) are accessing scholarly content in new ways, challenging traditional usage analytics models. In this guest post, Tim Lloyd outlines the challenges ahead in quantifying usage.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials post, Alice Meadows interviews Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director of COUNTER Metrics (formerly Project COUNTER), which plays a critical role in enabling consistent usage metrics reporting.
A list of the most influential scientists suffers from anomalies and inaccuracies.
How many books do we read in a year? Wouldn’t a better question be how well, how thoughtfully we had engaged with long-form content?
Mary Miskin offers an interview with Prof. Dr. Liying Yang, Director of the Scientometrics and Research Assessment Unit at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who manages the Early Warning List and the CAS Journal Ranking.
Looking at five ‘lines’ that the publishing industry has broadly agreed upon, but that now we are finding ourselves crossing.
A hackathon for the Financial Times Top 50 journals list is underway for those who want to shape how metrics are developed. An interview with Andrew Jack.
Sharing and evaluating early stage research findings can be challenging, but that’s starting to change. Learn more in this guest post by Sami Benchekroun and Michelle Kuepper of Morressier
The Altmetric “flower” is an icon, and the annual Top 100 list a much-anticipated event. But is the flower really a stalk?
Last week’s Transforming Research conference in Baltimore, MD, gathered a range of speakers across the academic and professional spectrum. Charlie Rapple highlights some of the new research that was shared, and draws out some of the prevalent themes.
At the Researcher to Reader conference, a volunteer project was launched to define a new suite of indicators to help researchers judge publishers, rather than the other way around.
A brief summary of the main citation indicators used today.
An interview with the team behind the new Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice.
What should publishers know about researchers and their work? Alice Meadows and Karin Wulf follow up a post earlier this year about “Seven Things Every Researcher Should Know about Scholarly Publishing.”