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Tag Archives: altmetrics
CFP: HASTAC 2014 – Hemispheric Pathways: Critical Makers in International Networks | HASTAC
The challenges facing the Western hemisphere are multidimensional and complex. Urban agglomeration, economic development, ecological crisis, military conflict, digital privacy, impediments to advanced learning, negotiations of multiple cultural and historical perspectives—these are problems with scientific and human factors that must … Continue reading
Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?
An interesting summary of presentations on altmetrics, including a set of interesting questions: BMJ Group blogs: BMJ Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Metrics 2.0: who will be the ‘Google of altmetrics’?.
BYOI: ORCID and Impact Story | Amber at Warwick: academic technology
Interesting post and slides from Amber at Warwick — a philosopher-information-technologist. BYOI: ORCID and Impact Story | Amber at Warwick: academic technology. I think there’s something right about the notion that this is “cool social scholarship.” But is it too … Continue reading
Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge – but it’s also much simpler than that | Impact of Social Sciences
Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge – but it’s also much simpler than that | Impact of Social Sciences.
Posted in Accountability, Broader Impacts, CSID Publications, Field Philosophy, institutionalizing interdisciplinarity, Libraries, Metrics, Peer Review, Science and technology ramifications, STEM Policy, TechnoScience & Technoscientism
Tagged altmetrics, LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog
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Altmetrics for the Nature correspondence on negative metrics of impact
Every journal should do this for every publication. Article details.
56 Indicators of Impact
In 2011, several core members of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID) at the University of North Texas held a meeting during which we imagined different ways to indicate the impact of our activities. We scribbled them on … Continue reading
Everything you ever wanted to know about altmetrics? Bulletin April/May 2013
Well, probably not. But it’s a start! Very informative special issue on altmetrics here, guest edited by Heather Piwowar: Bulletin April/May 2013.
Value all Research Products « Research Remix
Heather Piwowar (aka @ResearchRemix) has just published a pre-print version of her recently published Nature article on NSF’s new bio-sketch requirements. First draft of just-published Value all Research Products « Research Remix. This version is as interesting from the meta-standpoint … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Future of the University, Metrics, NSF, Open Access, STEM Policy
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Scholars are quickly moving toward a universe of web-native communication | Impact of Social Sciences
Jason Priem’s new post on the LSEImpact blog is quite interesting. For example: We found Web presence widespread and diverse: 84 per cent of scholars had homepages, 70 per cent were on LinkedIn, 23 per cent had public Google Scholar profiles, and 16 … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Future of the University, Metrics, Open Access
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altmetrics12 program – altmetrics.org
Everyone is invited to check out the program for the upcoming altmetrics12 workshop: altmetrics12 program – altmetrics.org. It’s happening next week, but you can participate early — even if you are unable to make the workshop itself. Abstracts are posted … Continue reading
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