Altmetrics

Getting All Bibliometric Efforts Onto the Same Page
Interdisciplinarity
December 4, 2015

Getting All Bibliometric Efforts Onto the Same Page

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Looking for Leiden: Let’s Make Use of ALL Available Metrics
Higher Education Reform
November 12, 2015

Looking for Leiden: Let’s Make Use of ALL Available Metrics

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Building Metrics That Help, Not Hurt, Science
News
October 9, 2015

Building Metrics That Help, Not Hurt, Science

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The Waves of the Metric Tide
Academic Funding
August 17, 2015

The Waves of the Metric Tide

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Even an Imperfect Metrics Regime Has Value

Even an Imperfect Metrics Regime Has Value

Jane Tinkler argues that if institutions like HEFCE specify a narrow set of impact metrics, more harm than good would come to universities forced to limit their understanding of how research is making a difference. But, she adds, qualitative and quantitative indicators continue to be an incredible source of learning for how impact works.

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Q&A: Publons Aims to Enhance Peer Review

Q&A: Publons Aims to Enhance Peer Review

Sage 1106 News

If the mental picture of peer review turned from it being a chore to it being a career-builder, it’s reasonable to think that all of academe might prosper. An interview with a co-founder of Publons, a company which aims to do just that.

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Report: Metrics Not Mature Enough to Replace Peer Review

Report: Metrics Not Mature Enough to Replace Peer Review

A new report looking at the role of metrics in analyzing British academe finds, ‘A lot of the things we value most in academic culture resist simple quantification, and individual indicators can struggle to do justice to the richness and diversity of our research.’

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Giving Reviewers Some Credit: The R-index

Giving Reviewers Some Credit: The R-index

Peer review is flawed, and a new index proposes a simple way to create transparency and quality control mechanisms. Shane Gero and Maurício Cantor believe that giving citable recognition to reviewers can improve the system by encouraging more participation but also higher quality, constructive input, without the need for a loss of anonymity.

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What the H? Explaining That Citation Metric

What the H? Explaining That Citation Metric

The appointment of climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg has focused attention on a newish metric for assessing academic importance, the H-Index.

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When Chasing Prestige Becomes the Prize

When Chasing Prestige Becomes the Prize

A survey by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics suggests that researchers appreciate the benefits of competition but also fear how it can emphasize prestige over quality

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Five Ways We Could Use Altmetrics in the Next REF

Five Ways We Could Use Altmetrics in the Next REF

Although many are excited by the possibilities for using alternative metrics to supplement research assessment, others are concerned about gaming the figures. Mike Thelwall provides his recommendations for uses of altmetrics in Britain’s national research evaluation exercises.

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Charting the Road From Attention to Citation

Charting the Road From Attention to Citation

Previous studies show there is low correlation between altmetrics and citation, but how do altmetrics compare to other metrics? Xianwen Wang and his colleagues recently conducted a study to answer this question.

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