by crauter | Nov 7, 2013 | Research Funding, Research Impact
RIOXX is a new project aimed at making it easier to track research outputs and attribute them accurately to funding streams. Better metadata – information about the books, papers and articles produced by researchers – is needed to make tracking research...
by crauter | Nov 6, 2013 | Publishing, Research Impact
The term “altmetrics” was coined in 2010 by Jason Priem, co-founder of ImpactStory and refers to a range of measures of research impact that go beyond citations. In a recent article in Nature, Priem lays out a bold vision of the future: “The article...
by crauter | Nov 6, 2013 | Publishing, REF, Research Impact
According to a paper uploaded to arXiv in April 2013, papers now need about twice as many citations to rank in the top 5% or 1% papers as they did 40 years ago. Since the late 1980s, a decreasing proportion of top cited papers have been published in elite journals....
by crauter | Nov 6, 2013 | Open Access
May 2013 saw the launch of Zenodo (www.zenodo.org), an open access European scientific data repository. Zenodo is a collaboration between CERN and OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) and is supported by the European Commission. The name Zenodo...
