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Have We Outsourced Impact Measures to Database Providers?

By Arlette Jappe, David Pithan and Thomas Heinze | Published: July 9, 2019

Arlette Jappe, David Pithan and Thomas Heinze find that the growth in the volume of 'evaluative citation analysis' publications has not led to the formation of an intellectual field with strong reputational control. This has left a gap which has been filled by commercial database providers, who by selecting and distributing research metrics have gained a powerful role in defining standards of research excellence without being challenged by expert authority.

Writing Social Science Fiction in the Age of the Metrix

By John Postill | Published: July 2, 2019

Burned out by the hamster-wheel of academe and the regime of metrics, John Postill decided the tonic would be to write a spoof spy thriller about a Spanish nerd with a silly name who moves to London in 1994 and accidentally foils a terrorist plot by an evil anthropologist.

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Social Science Ahead of the (Shallow) Curve on Altmetrics Acceptance

By Michael Todd | Published: May 3, 2019

A new survey of university faculty finds that the idea of altmetrics – using something aside from journal citations as the measure of scholarly impact – has made less headway among faculty than might be expected given the hoopla surrounding altmetrics. These new measures are the most familiar in the social science community (barely) and least familiar in the arts and humanities (dramatically so).

Posted in Career, Impact | Also tagged ACRL, Altmetrics, Citations | Leave a comment

Book Review: Scholarly Communication and Measuring Research – What Does Everyone Need to Know?

By James Hartley | Published: April 23, 2019

Academics are required to not only find effective ways to communicate their research, but also to increasingly measure and quantify its quality, impact and reach. In Scholarly Communication: What Everyone Needs to Know, Rick Anderson puts us in the picture. And in Measuring Research: What Everyone Needs to Know, Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Lariviere critically assess over 20 tools currently available for evaluating the quality of research.

Posted in Bookshelf, Impact, Research | Also tagged Altmetrics, Oxford University Press | Leave a comment

How Could Google Scholar (and the Citation System) Be Improved?

By Louis Coiffait | Published: March 21, 2019

To end his trilogy of articles on the research metric system (and Google Scholar in particular), Louis Coiffait explores what improvements could be made.

Posted in Featured, Impact, Research, Science & Social Science | Also tagged Google, Google Scholar, Impact, Research, scholar | Leave a comment

Academe Just Doesn’t Talk Enough about Research Metrics

By Lai Ma | Published: February 25, 2019

The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use. Why is there such a discrepancy between principle and practices?

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Book Review: Metric Power

By Thomas Christie Williams | Published: January 6, 2017

In Metric Power, David Beer examines the intensifying role that metrics play in our everyday lives, from healthcare provision to our interactions with friends and family, within the context of the so-termed data revolution. This is a book that illustrates our growing implication in, and arguable acquiescence to, an increasingly quantified world, but, Thomas Christie Williams asks, where do we locate resistance?

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Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

By Paul Smaldino | Published: October 4, 2016

A culture of bad science can evolve as a result of institutional incentives that prioritize simple quantitative metrics as measures of success, argues Paul Smaldino. But, he adds, not all is lost as new initiatives such as open data and replication are making a positive difference.

Posted in Career, Higher Education Reform | Also tagged Ethics, Incentives, Publication Concerns | Leave a comment

In Research, Engagement Is Not the Same As Impact

By SAGE | Published: April 12, 2016

As governments seek practical metrics for determining if their research funding is money wisely spent, the quest for 'impact' takes on great importance. Drawing from the Australian experience, Stephen Taylor addresses several key measurement principles.

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In the Rush to Metrics, Don’t Ignore Human Intuition

By Eric Giannella | Published: December 23, 2015

Sociologist Eric Giannella argues the uncertainty of science makes intuition and judgement essential, and yet the effect of metrics is to reduce the role of judgment.

Posted in Public Policy | Also tagged Intuition, LSE Impact | Leave a comment

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Have We Outsourced Impact Measures to Database Providers?

Writing Social Science Fiction in the Age of the Metrix

Social Science Ahead of the (Shallow) Curve on Altmetrics Acceptance

Book Review: Scholarly Communication and Measuring Research – What Does Everyone Need to Know?

Academe Just Doesn’t Talk Enough about Research Metrics

Book Review: Metric Power

Existing Career Incentives Are Often Bad for Science

In Research, Engagement Is Not the Same As Impact

In the Rush to Metrics, Don’t Ignore Human Intuition

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