by crauter | Mar 17, 2016 | Events and training, Library Resources for Research, Research Impact
We are taking part in two sessions this week on the topic of altmetrics, “the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analyzing, and informing scholarship”. See the altmetrics manifesto for the original explanation and justification;...
by crauter | Jun 22, 2015 | Research Impact
Finding Impact Factors: Journal Citation Reports latest edition Journal citation reports can be used to find out the impact factor for a journal. This is a useful way of finding quality journals where your article is more likely to be cited (although it only covers...
by crauter | Jan 29, 2015 | Research Impact
Jamie, Public Engagement Officer at the University of Glasgow and former scientist, gave an entertaining talk on this topic at the university yesterday. Here are some of his key points, sadly expressed more dully than they were by him: Remember that people are not as...
by crauter | Nov 11, 2014 | Research Impact
Nature News has compiled a list of the 100 most highly cited papers, using data from Science Citation Index. Of the 58 million items analysed, only 14,499 have more than 1,o0o citations – the 1985 discovery of the hole in the ozone layer has 1,871 citations. It...
by crauter | Oct 29, 2014 | Research Impact
ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID is a registry of unique identifiers for researchers and scholars that is open, non-proprietary, transparent, mobile, and community-based. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier to distinguish you from all other...
by crauter | Oct 21, 2014 | Publishing, Research Impact
The journal Science reports on a study carried out by the Google Scholar team. According to this research: In 1995, only 27% of citations pointed to articles published in nonelite journals. That portion grew to 47% by 2013. And the nonelite journals published an...
