by ikehoe | Jul 9, 2018 | News, Research impact
Science | Jeffrey Brainard and Matt Warren | June 27, 2018 Clarivate Analytics issued an update (June 26) of the Journal impact factors. It now includes “a distribution curve displaying the total number of articles and other items published in a journal versus...
by ikehoe | Apr 3, 2018 | News, Research impact
April 3, 2018 The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has signed on to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which recommends changes in practices by the research community regarding the use of research metrics. For more see:...
by Katy Nelson | Jul 27, 2015 | Open access, Research impact
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Knowledge Lab have been exploring how Wikipedia cites academic research, in order to assess the quality and type of material used by Wikipedia contributors. Their findings suggest that “controlling for field and...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 25, 2015 | News, Open data, Open scholarship, Research impact
The Online Community Library Center (OCLC) has released a new book about their work with library linked data. The book is called Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC's Experiments with New Models of Resource Description. Read more about it...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 18, 2015 | News, Research impact
Last Thursday, Thompson Reuters released their annual Journal Citation Report (JCR) which includes its very influential Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The Report can be accessed through the library website. Read more about the report, the JIF and other citation metric...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 9, 2015 | Research impact
Scopus, the self-described “largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings”, has announced that it will begin an annual review process in order to maintain quality control over the...
