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Science News
December 3, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Rating Researchers Is there a single number that would quantify the cumulative impact and relevance of a researcher's scientific work?   |
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. |
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
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
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." |
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. |
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 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. |
D-Lib
December 2008
Tenopir & King |
Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns Electronic journals have resulted in a narrowing of scientific citation patterns. |
D-Lib
December 2002
Rudner et al. |
Who Is Reading On-line Education Journals? Why? And What Are They Reading? One thoughtful examination of the literature estimates that a typical article published in a scientific journal in the U.S. is read about 900 times. In contrast, some of the electronic journals in education appear to be having a far greater impact. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
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
June 9, 2008
Nancy Herther |
Elsevier Releases Scopus Journal Analyzer Subscribers to Elsevier's Scopus have a new tool to aid in evaluating journal performance over time. |
Information Today
July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Eugene Garfield Celebrates 75 Years ISI has announced that Eugene Garfield, founder and chairman emeritus of ISI, celebrated his 75th birthday at the company's headquarters in Philadelphia. Over 500 ISI employees and the staff from The Scientist, a news journal for life scientists, where Garfield serves as president and editor in chief, joined him... |
Chemistry World
November 27, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
End of the road for h-index rankings US chemists who have ranked living chemists based on their h-indices have decided to stop. The decision comes after criticism that the list lends too much emphasis to a single metric for assessing academic performance. |
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." |
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. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Tenopir et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are affected by using journals in three system phases. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
November 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Eugene Garfield Celebrates a Birthday and a Career On September 15, 2000, Dr. Eugene Garfield, ISI's founder and chairman emeritus, celebrated his 75th birthday at the company's headquarters in Philadelphia. We caught up with Garfield shortly after the party to discuss his legacy in information science and his thoughts on some recent trends... |
D-Lib
April 2009
Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |
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 2006
King et al. |
Measuring Total Reading of Journal Articles Surveys involving amount of reading from Table-of-Contents complement other estimates of amount of reading of articles and journals. With recent open access concerns with cost of publishing articles, this method provides a more accurate means of estimating the article (and journal) cost per reading. |
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. |
Chemistry World
March 7, 2012
Mico Tatalovic |
Croatia to slim down funding for science journals Science journals in Croatia face an uncertain future, with their main funder, the science ministry, announcing changes that will see only the best journals funded. |
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. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2010
Changqing & Xiaodong |
Development Strategy for High-Quality Science and Technology Journals in China The Ministry of Science and Technology of China has planned and executed a development strategy for high-quality ST journals in order to advance the international competitive capacity of China's journals. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Bollen et al. |
Usage Analysis for the Identification of Research Trends in Digital Libraries The analysis of user logs from large-scale digital libraries offers new opportunities to assess research trends in an institution's user communities. |
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. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Donald W. King |
Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? If open access by author payment is in fact an optimum model, there must be some way to demonstrate it other than by the trickle approach now taking place. |
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. |
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. |
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
April 9, 2014
Anthony King |
Metrics' role in assessing research reviewed A committee set up by Hefce (Higher Education Funding Council for England) aims to grapple with the thorny issue of using metrics to assess and manage research. Metrics have expanded to altmetrics, which track what people are saying about a paper online. |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Chemistry World
July 4, 2011
Andy Extance |
Funders Unveil 'Elite' Open Access Journal The Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute are set to launch an open access research journal that will attempt to compete directly for submissions with Cell, Nature and Science. |
D-Lib
June 2003
Bonthron et al. |
Trends in Use of Electronic Journals in Higher Education in the UK - Views of Academic Staff and Students This article examines disciplinary differences in the use of electronic journals by academic staff and students and considers whether library services need to differentiate between staff and students when planning support services for electronic journals. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011
Pfeiffenberger & Carlson |
"Earth System Science Data" (ESSD) - A Peer Reviewed Journal for Publication of Data Making data -- technically -- citable has been a theme for a number of years. |
Information Today
March 2001
Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Chemistry World
September 29, 2014
Derek Lowe |
Garbage in, garbage out Evaluating scientists is not easy. That's always been the case, and the shortcuts to doing it have been around a long time too. Counting papers and conferences is easy, but stupid. |
D-Lib
October 2003
King et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities University libraries are rapidly moving toward electronic journal collections. Readership surveys at three universities with different levels of electronic journal implementation demonstrate how transition to electronic journal collections affects use patterns of faculty and staff. |
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. |
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
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
HHMI Teams Up for Open Access Journal HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust intend to launch an open-access journal for biomedical and life sciences research that breaks the mold set by traditional scientific journals. |
