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...
Étiquette : metrics
RipetaScore: Measuring the Quality, Transparency, and Trustworthiness of a Scientific Work
Authors : Josh Q. Sumner, Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Leslie D. McIntosh A wide array of existing metrics quantifies a scientific paper’s prominence or the aut...
Perspectives on Open Science and The Future of Scholarly Communication: Internet Trackers and Algorithmic Persuasion
Authors : Tiberius Ignat, Paul Ayris, Beatrice Gini, Olga Stepankova, Deniz Özdemir, Damla Bal, Yordanka Deyanov The current digital content industry is heavily...
Why does library holding format really matter for book impact assessment?: Modelling the relationship between citations and altmetrics with print and electronic holdings
Author : Ashraf Maleki Scholarly books are important outputs in some fields and their many publishing formats seem to introduce opportunities to scrutinize thei...
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...
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...