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...
Étiquette : research impact
The Scientific Prize Network Predicts Who Pushes the Boundaries of Science
Authors : Yifang Ma, Brian Uzzi Scientific prizes are among the greatest recognition a scientist receives from their peers and arguably shape the direction of a...
Mesurer la science
Auteurs/Authors : Vincent Larivière, Cassidy R. Sugimoto L’ensemble de la communauté scientifique réclame depuis plusieurs années des indicateurs fiables permet...
How to reach a wider audience with open access publishing: what research universities can learn from universities of applied sciences
Authors : Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer, Jaroen Kuijper In Amsterdam, the libraries of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied S...
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...
Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States
Authors: Rachel Ann Miles, Stacy Konkiel, Sarah Sutton INTRODUCTION Academic librarians, especially in the field of scholarly communication, are often expected ...
Do altmetrics assess societal impact in the same way as case studies? An empirical analysis testing the convergent validity of altmetrics based on data from the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF)
Authors : Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild, Jonathan Adams Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although altmetrics ...