Judging Journals: How Impact Factor and Other Metrics Differ across Disciplines
Authors : Quinn Galbraith, Alexandra Carlile Butterfield, Chase Cardon Given academia’s frequent use of publication metrics and the inconsistencies in metrics a...
Étiquette : metrics
Development and preliminary validation of an open access, open data and open outreach indicator
Authors : Evgenios Vlachos, Regine Ejstrup, Thea Marie Drachen, Bertil Fabricius Dorch We present the development and preliminary validation of a new person-cen...
Metrics and peer review agreement at the institutional level
Authors : Vincent A Traag, Marco Malgarini, Sarlo Scipione In the past decades, many countries have started to fund academic institutions based on the evaluatio...
Deep Impact: A Study on the Impact of Data Papers and Datasets in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Authors : Barbara McGillivray, Paola Marongiu, Nilo Pedrazzini, Marton Ribary, Mandy Wigdorowitz, Eleonora Zordan The humanities and social sciences (HSS) have ...
Implementing the Declaration on Research Assessment: a publisher case study
Authors : Victoria Gardner, Mark Robinson, Elisabetta O’Connell There has been much debate around the role of metrics in scholarly communication, with particula...
Toward More Inclusive Metrics and Open Science to Measure Research Assessment in Earth and Natural Sciences
Authors : Olivier Pourret, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Najmeh Shaghaei, Elenora M. van Rijsingen, Lonni Besançon The conventional assessment of scientists relies on a...
Academic social networks metrics: an effective indicator for university performance?
Authors : Łukasz Wiechetek, Zbigniew Pastuszak Social networks have become popular among researchers and scientists. Specialized platforms for researchers offer...