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A Day at the Beach — How the Messiness and Unpredictability of Journals Thwart Granularity

Attempts to use new measurements to more finely predict or represent journal quality are bound to falter because of some qualities inherent to journals themselves.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Aug 12, 2014
  • 9 Comments

Google's New "Scholar Metrics" Have Potential, But Also Prove Problematic

Google’s new “Scholar Metrics” promise to make the h-index viable for journals on a large scale. But problems exist in their approach, some of them easily handled, some not.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 24, 2012
  • 18 Comments

Digital Disorder — Losing the Signal of Priority and Selection

We used to have editorial selection and ordering as a natural result of editorial control. With algorithms and news feeds dominating, where are the signals of priority and linked information? Did we really need the packaging?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 1, 2012
  • 25 Comments

The End of the Salad Days — Where Is Google Headed Next?

Google once represented the spirit of Internet optimism distilled into a successful company. Now, with more cynical plays and shuttering experiments, what does Google’s new approach tell us about the Internet of tomorrow?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 25, 2012
  • 9 Comments

J.C. Penney's Black Hat SEO and Google — Why the Network Doesn't Justify Impact Proxies

The outer ring of citation remains a point of vulnerability for quality proxies, as does reducing complex things to simple lists or numbers. When will we learn?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 16, 2011
  • 2 Comments

The Impact Factor: A Tool from a Bygone Era?

With scientific information propagating in new ways, is the Impact Factor measuring what it was intended to measure?

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jun 29, 2009
  • 27 Comments

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