(26 Jan 2022) Clarivate has released a report from the company’s Institute for Scientific Information, proposing a new method for analysing the credit authors of academic papers receive via citations. In an increasingly global and collaborative world, where the number of articles naming dozens or even hundreds of researchers as authors is rapidly increasing, the…
(11 Sep 2019) A video recording of a LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) webinar held yesterday (September 10, 2019) and titled, “Innovating The Ways Metrics Are Applied, Responsible Metrics & Measuring Openness” is now available online. Library Journal has a short description and video embedded here.
(30 January 2019) “The problem with simple metrics, however, is that they are prone to being misused or mistakenly invested with excessive significance, to the exclusion of more complete, nuanced, and meaningful data.” This advocacy for the use of more complete data – “profiles, not metrics” – is the thesis and title of the inaugural Global Research…
(31 October 2016, Philadelphia) Clarivate Analytics and the Chinese Academy of Sciences today released Research Fronts 2016, an annual report identifying prominent areas of scientific research over the past year. This is the third collaborative report from these two organizations. The paper identifies 180 key research fronts including 100 hot and 80 emerging fronts, based…
(18 November 2013) IEEE recently issued a statement on the appropriate use of bibliometric indicators in journal citations to emphasize the importance of providing accurate citation counts and other indicators when evaluating the quality and impact of scientific publications. The IEEE recognizes the increasing importance of bibliometric indicators as independent measures of quality or impact…