A “basket of metrics”—the best support for understanding journal merit
Authors : Lisa Colledge, Chris James Aim To survey opinion of the assertion that useful metricbased input requires a “basket of metrics” to allow more varied an...
Étiquette : metrics
How significant are the public dimensions of faculty work in review, promotion, and tenure documents?
Authors : Juan Pablo Alperin, Gustavo E. Fischman, Erin C. McKiernan, Carol Muñoz Nieves, Meredith T. Niles, Lesley Schimanski Much of the work of universities,...
Do all citations value the same? Valuing citations by the value of the citing items
Authors : Cristiano Giuffrida, Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo Bibliometricians have long recurred to citation counts to measure the impact of pu...
Mesurer la science
Auteurs/Authors : Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto L’ensemble de la communauté scientifique réclame depuis plusieurs années des indicateurs fiables permet...
Systematic analysis of agreement between metrics and peer review in the UK REF
Authors : Vincent Traag, Ludo Waltman When performing a national research assessment, some countries rely on citation metrics whereas others, such as the UK, pr...
Universalizing science: alternative indices to direct research
Authors : Ari Melo Mariano, Maíra Rocha Santos Measurement is a complicated but very necessary task. Many indices have been created in an effort to define the q...
Collecting Inclusive Usage Metrics for Open Access Publications: the HIRMEOS Project
Author : Javier Arias Open Access has matured for journals, but its uptake in the book market is still delayed, despite the fact that books continue to be the l...