http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2256846/elsevier-integrates-journal
By IWR News Desk, Information World Review 27 Jan 2010
Elsevier has announced that Scopus, its abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, has partnered with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the SCImago Research Group, endorsing two complementary journal metrics, SNIP and SJR
The metrics will be freely available [...]
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18346/
Articles whose authors make them Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them online are cited significantly more than articles accessible only to subscribers. Some have suggested that this “OA Advantage” may not be causal but just a self-selection bias, because authors preferentially make higher-quality articles OA. To test this we compared [...]
nbsp;http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_repor…
Bibliometric analysis is an increasingly important part of a broader ‘toolbox’ of evaluation methods available to R&D policymakers to support decision-making. In the US, UK and Australia, for example, there is evidence of gradual convergence over the past ten years towards a model of university research assessment and ranking incorporating the use of bibliometric measures. [...]
nbsp;http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-e…
ANY academic toiling on the journal publications treadmill will tell you how dispiriting it can be, but in the business and management field at least the process has become discreditable, if not corrupt.
When incentive systems in universities and assessments of performance across the higher education sector rely on measuring publications, we have a system [...]
STM publisher Elsevier has announced that its flagship product Scopus has been chosen by Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) to conduct international research paper output analyses. Scopus claims to be the largest abstract and citation (A&C) database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
source: KnowledgeSpeak
nbsp;http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info…
“We suspect many of our readers will be familiar with the cult TV show The Prisoner, in which actor Patrick McGoohan had his identity taken away by unknown assailants for unknown reasons, and his pleas of “I am not a number, I am a person” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29JewlGsY… ) were greeted with variants of “whatever you say, [...]
nbsp;http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/
Tenurometer is a social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author’s publications.
nbsp;http://www.arc.gov.au/era/citation.htm
Under an agreement with Scopus, the ARC will provide static citation counts and benchmarks used in ERA to submitting institutions post-evaluation. …..
source: ARC
nbsp;http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:…
nbsp;http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/pub_supported_…
The Research Evaluation and Policy Project (REPP) was commissioned by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to update its previous 2004 analysis of the impact of publications resulting from ARC-funded research. The ARC has many diverse schemes for funding research, which target different aggregations of effort – the research group, cross-institutional programs, and the individual researcher. [...]
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