The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged st...
Étiquette : research impact
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators
Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bib...
Open Access Meets Discoverability: Citations to Articles Posted to Academia.edu
Using matching and regression analyses, we measure the difference in citations between articles posted to Academia.edu and other articles from similar journals,...
Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact
What does it mean to have meaningful metrics in today’s complex higher education landscape? With a foreword by Heather Piwowar and Jason Priem, this highly enga...
Tweets Do Measure Non – Citational Intellectual Impact
Purpose The aim of the paper is to identify the motive behind the social media indicators in focus to tweets and attempts to identify what is measured or indica...
Wikiometrics: A Wikipedia Based Ranking System
We present a new concept – Wikiometrics – the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia. Wikipedia provides an accurate representation of ...
Evaluating the Impact of Open Access at Berkeley: Results from the 2015 Survey of Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) Funding Recipients
The Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) was one of the first campus-based open access (OA) funds to be established in North America and one of the most a...