The role of metrics in peer assessments
Authors : Liv Langfeldt, Ingvild Reymert, Dag W Aksnes Metrics on scientific publications and their citations are easily accessible and are often referred to i...
Étiquette : metrics
Do researchers know what the h-index is? And how do they estimate its importance?
Authors : Pantea Kamrani, Isabelle Dorsch, Wolfgang G. Stock The h-index is a widely used scientometric indicator on the researcher level working with a simple ...
Web analytics for open access academic journals: justification, planning and implementation
Authors : Alex Vitela Caraveo, Cristóbal Urbano An overview is presented of resources and web analytics strategies useful in setting solutions for capturing usa...
Requiem for impact factors and high publication charges
Authors : Chris R Triggle, Ross MacDonald, David J. Triggle, Donald Grierson Journal impact factors, publication charges and assessment of quality and accuracy ...
How is science clicked on Twitter? Click metrics for Bitly short links to scientific publications
Authors : Zhichao Fang, Rodrigo Costas, Wencan Tian, Xianwen Wang, Paul Wouters To provide some context for the potential engagement behavior of Twitter users a...
Conjoint analysis of researchers’ hidden preferences for bibliometrics, altmetrics, and usage metrics
Authors : Steffen Lemke, Athanasios Mazarakis, Isabella Peters The amount of annually published scholarly articles is growing steadily, as is the number of indi...
Preprints as accelerator of scholarly communication: An empirical analysis in Mathematics
Authors : Zhiqi Wang, Yue Chen, Wolfgang Glänzel In this study we analyse the key driving factors of preprints in enhancing scholarly communication. To this end...