Metrics for openness
Authors : David M. Nichols, Michael B. Twidale The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose...
Étiquette : metrics
A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter
Authors : Qing Ke, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are increasingly used ...
The metric tide : Report of the independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment and management
« This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management. The review was c...
Return on citation: a consistent metric to evaluate papers, journals and researchers
« Evaluating and comparing the academic performance of a journal, a researcher or a single paper has long remained a critical, necessary but also controversial ...
Open Access and the Changing Landscape of Research…
Open Access and the Changing Landscape of Research Impact Indicators: New Roles for Repositories : « The debate about the need to revise metrics that evaluate r...
Universality of scholarly impact metrics We present…
Universality of scholarly impact metrics: « We present a method to quantify the disciplinary bias of any scholarly impact metric, and introduce a simple univers...
Repositories in Google Scholar Metrics or what is…
Repositories in Google Scholar Metrics or what is this document type doing in a place as such? : « The present paper analyzes GS Metrics, Google’s newest ...