Use of Twitter in Spanish Communication Journals
Authors : Victoria Tur-Viñes, Jesús Segarra-Saavedra, Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí This is an exploratory study on the Twitter profiles managed by 30 Spanish Communicat...
Étiquette : scientific communication
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 ...
Scholarship as an Open Conversation: Utilizing Open Peer Review in Information Literacy Instruction
Author : Emily Ford This article explores the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy’s frame, Scholarship as a Conversation. This frame asserts that informatio...
Case for the double-blind peer review
Author : Lucie Tvrznikova Peer review is a process designed to produce a fair assessment of research quality prior to publication of scholarly work in a journal...
Ten considerations for open peer review
Authors : Birgit Schmidt, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Xenia van Edig, Elizabeth C Moylan Open peer review (OPR), as with other elements of open science and open researc...