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Wired May 22, 2009 Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Chemistry World October 2009 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new research into the h-index and unearths some top tips for citation-hungry researchers |
Chemistry World October 25, 2012 Philip Ball |
h is for horoscope? Named after Jorge Hirsch, the physicist who devised this measure of achievement, the h index quantifies how many highly cited papers an individual has written: h of his or her papers have been cited at least h times. Hirsch says that tenured researchers tend to have an h index of at least 12. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Whitesides Charges to the Top US chemist George Whitesides has overtaken Harvard compatriot E. J. Corey to top a league table measuring the research achievements of living chemists. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Hirsch Index Ranks Top Chemists Living chemists have been ranked in a league table based on what some argue is the fairest measure of research achievement ever devised. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Paul McFedries |
Measuring the Impact of Altmetrics When it comes to ranking academic influence, PageRank is just the start. Altmetrics refers to tools based on bookmarks, links, blog posts, tweets, and other online measures. |
Information Today August 4, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Scholar Citations -- Google Moves into the Domain of Web of Science and Scopus On July 20, 2011, Google formally launched Google Scholar Citations to provide "a simple way for scholars to keep track of citations to their articles." |
Chemistry World December 2007 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible It seems that everyone knows and monitors their Hirsch index, a rank of the impact of a scientist's research. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Knoth & Herrmannova |
Towards Semantometrics: A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure for Assessing a Research Publication's Contribution We propose Semantometrics, a new class of metrics for evaluating research. |
D-Lib April 2009 Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2007 Hepeng Jia |
China Leaps up Research League Table China has overtaken Japan and the UK to become the world's second largest producer of science and technology (S&T) papers. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
China plans 'green' open access future Thousands of Chinese papers published in top journals will have to freely accessible within a year of publication. |
Information Today October 13, 2011 |
Thomson Reuters Launches Book Citation Index This is a new resource within the Web of Knowledge platform covering 25,000 books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2011 Eugene Gerden |
Russia Books Place at Science Top Table The Innovative Russia 2020 scheme should see science funding rise to at least 2.5 per cent of GDP. However, some critics think the scheme is overambitious and predict that implementation will run into bureacratic problems. |
D-Lib September 2005 Bauer & Bakkalbasi |
An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment A study comparing the citation counts from three resources for research articles taken from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. |
Information Today October 29, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Thomson Reuters Tackles Open Access Datasets With Data Citation Index This month, Thomson Reuters began a soft launch of its new Data Citation Index, which is intended as a comprehensive view of scholarly research bringing research data into the same arena as the published literature it supports. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Knoth et al. |
Guest Editorial A significant proportion of the new approaches presented in this issue address a wide range of problems in extracting structured information, and even detailed semantics, from research papers. |
Information Today October 25, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Thomson Reuters Announces Book Citation Index--Scheduled for Release in 2Q 2011 Thomson Reuters announced a new product, Book Citation Index, to add to its suite of citation indexes. Vice president for editorial development and publisher relations, James Testa, talks about the story behind this announcement. |
Information Today October 29, 2007 Nancy Herther |
Eugene Garfield Launches HistCite HistCite gives users easy methods for identifying core literature from Web of Science, by marking literature in the database and moving it into the software for analysis. |
Chemistry World November 18, 2013 Philip Ball |
Novelty hits top the charts Chemistry scores highly as an interdisciplinary subject on the basis of how often papers within the discipline cite ones from outside -- it is second only to biology, comparable to medical research, and better than, say, physics or earth sciences. |
D-Lib October 2002 |
Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward Free, unrestricted access to research papers is increasing the speed of scientific communication. This article describes the Open Citation project's efforts to build tools to aid in archiving papers. |
Chemistry World February 19, 2015 Francois-Xavier Coudert |
Setting the record straight It is every scientist's duty to add knowledge to this record, but also to safeguard its integrity by checking that others' work is reproducible. |
Information Today March 1, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Thomson ISI to Track Web-Based Scholarship with NEC's CiteSeer Thomson ISI will collaborate with NEC Laboratories America to create a comprehensive, multidisciplinary citation index for Web-based scholarly resources. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Samson C. Soong |
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility This article describes a study to measure the actual effect of open accessibility on citation rates. |
Information Today January 23, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier's Scopus Introduces Citation Tracker: Challenge to Thomson ISI's Web of Science? Elsevier's Scopus Citation Tracker service expands the functionality of its "cited by" feature on its search results page. |
Chemistry World January 31, 2013 Mico Tatalovic |
Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals A Serbian study claims to have uncovered a 'citation cartel' in which two Bosnian journals listed by Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports are practicing an alarming level of misconduct with substantial involvement of large groups of authors from Serbia. |
Information Today April 7, 2011 |
Thomson Reuters Introduces the New Web of Knowledge This latest release of the scholarly research and citation data resource delivers better functionality and new features. |
Information Today October 22, 2012 |
Thomson Reuters Adds Web of Science Content to Patent Prior Art Research Tools Access to patent content, scientific journals, conference proceedings, business data, and news information are critical in the quest to determine if an idea is unique and has potential for further development. Thomson Innovation enhancements make this quest much easier. |
Chemistry World March 25, 2008 Killugudi Jayaraman |
Chemistry's 'Colossal' Fraud One of the biggest cases of scientific fraud in chemistry is continuing to send shockwaves across India, as concerns are raised over the senior academics who co-authored multiple academic papers with researcher Pattium Chiranjeevi. |
Information Today January 17, 2012 |
Springer Launches Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal SpringerPlus It is the publisher's first open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum. Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2012 McMahon et al. |
Social Awareness Tools For Science Research Tools for social networking and social awareness are developing rapidly and evolving continuously. They are gaining popularity in a growing number of professional as well as personal activities, including scholarly research. |
Information Today April 10, 2006 Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
Information Today October 18, 2012 Barbara Brynko |
And the (Nobel Prize) Winner Is ... Every autumn, David Pendlebury looks forward to hearing who has won the year's Nobel Prizes. Pendlebury is a citation analyst at Thomson Reuters and spends months digging into data dating from as far as 3 decades ago in search of what he calls scientists and researchers of "Nobel class." |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2012 Bhatia et al. |
Specialized Research Datasets in the CiteSeerX Digital Library These datasets are not those usually available from CiteSeer x and awareness of these datasets may further advance state-of-the-art research in academic digital library data management and analysis. |
Geotimes September 2004 Jay Chapman |
Global Science Standings In a new study of scientific standing among nations, the United States leads the world in scientific wealth, although many European countries are closing the gap. |
Information Today February 12, 2015 |
Authors Can Now View Citation Counts in Kudos Citation counts from Thomson Reuters' Web of Science are live in Kudos' author dashboard. |
Information Today January 10, 2008 |
Thomson Scientific Launches New Citation Impact Forum The online forum promotes scholarly discussion about all facets of citation-based research evaluation. |
Chemistry World November 24, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Retracted papers get hooked up to linguistic lie-detector Scientists who manipulate or falsify data may be masking their results behind excess jargon in published papers, according to a team of researchers at Stanford University. |
Information Today November 28, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Thomson Scientific launches web citation index... Internet Archive offers new archive service... ScholarOne and Atypon collaborate... |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 Knoth et al. |
Scientific Publications: Gathering Data, Extracting Information, and Following Trends Digital libraries that store scientific publications continue to be increasingly important in research. They are used not only for the traditional tasks of finding and storing research outputs, but also as data sources for mass automated processing. |
Information Today November 19, 2012 Barbie E. Keiser |
Springer Gets Reference Manager Papers Papers acts as a repository for digital academic documents in one's personal library, accepting 85 different types of documents, including books, articles, web pages, patents, reports, etc. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2013 Mark Peplow |
The judgement of your peers The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment has almost 10,000 signatories demanding that funders and institutions stop using journal-level metrics as a basis for such decisions, and instead focus on the scientific content of papers. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The changes in both scientific journal and data publication, too slow for some, too fast for others, continues to accelerate. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2015 Henderson & Kotz |
Data Citation Practices in the CRAWDAD Wireless Network Data Archive CRAWDAD (Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data At Dartmouth) is a popular research data archive for wireless network data, archiving over 100 datasets used by over 6,500 users. We examine citation behavior amongst 1,281 papers that use CRAWDAD datasets |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2012 Knoth et al. |
Special Issue on Mining Scientific Publications Digital libraries that store scientific publications are becoming increasingly important in research. They are used not only for traditional tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, but also as sources for discovering new research trends. |
Information Today June 2004 Mick O'Leary |
Learner's Library Dumbs Down This fee-based research service for students is a dumbed-down, error-ridden product that offers both haphazard content and inferior searching. |
Information Today November 19, 2015 |
Paperpile Introduces Google Docs Integration The Paperpile reference manager released a free, standalone, fully featured citation manager that works with Google Docs so users can collaborate on papers and grants. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 Patton et al. |
Multi-year Content Analysis of User Facility Related Publications Scientific user facilities provide support that enables scientists to conduct experiments or simulations pertinent to their research. It is critical to have an informed understanding of the impact and contributions that these facilities have on scientific discoveries. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Half of all papers from 2011 are open access Open access publishing is growing far faster than previously thought, according to a new report prepared for the European commission. The sample included material from online databases, such as Scopus and PubMed, as well as the websites of publishers, institutions and researchers. |
Information Today January 24, 2013 |
Thomson Reuters Expands Book Citation Index The IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters announced the expansion of the Book Citation Index through partnerships with publishers such as Elsevier, Johns Hopkins University Press, and the University of Chicago Press. |