Impact Factors

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FACULTYof1000 Rankings

October 15th, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments

Check out the new FACULTYof1000 database of expert evaluations of published articles. Also included is a Rankings section. Articles are ranked by: All Time Top 10s Current Top 10s All Time Most Viewed Current Most Viewed Hidden Jewels

Article Level Metrics from the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

September 29th, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments

Check out the new article level metrics that are now available from JMIR. One new type of metric is how often a given article was tweeted. Other metrics include: Most viewed Most purchased Most cited by Google Scholar

Assessing Assessment

July 23rd, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments

Interesting Nature editorial on measuring individual scientific achievement. “A poll of Nature’s readers suggests that feelings about metrics are mixed. Many researchers say that, in principle, they welcome the use of quantitative performance metrics because of the potential for clarity and objectivity. Yet they also worry that the hiring, promotion and tenure committees that control [...]

Journal Citation Reports 2009

July 12th, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) recently released the 2009 edition of JCR. JCR 2009 includes citations from more than 1,600 new journals.

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PLoS Article-Level Metrics

September 30th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments

The Public Library in Science (PLoS) articles now include a metrics tab– “Article-Level Metrics“–that allows for evaluation of research impact. Available data includes: Article usage statistics – HTML pageviews, PDF downloads and XML downloads Citations from the scholarly literature – currently from PubMed Central, Scopus and CrossRef Social bookmarks – currently from CiteULike and Connotea Comments [...]

Measuring Impact Where it Matters: New PLoS Metrics

August 6th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments

PloS recently initiated a program to provide metrics for individual articles published in all PLoS journals. This program focuses on the impact of the article itself instead of the journal and includes metrics for assessing the impact of the article by using indicators such as cited-by citations, social bookmarks, blog coverage, to name a few. “. [...]

A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures

July 16th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments

Interesting article published in PLoS ONE: A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures (Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Chute R, 2009 A Principal Component Analysis of 39 Scientific Impact Measures. PLoS ONE 4(6): e6022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006022) discusses measuring the impact of scientific publications. “Our results indicate that the notion of scientific impact is [...]

Journal Citation Reports 2008

June 24th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments

Journal Citation Reports recently released data for 2008. New metrics and features include: 5-Year Journal Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric [...]

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Resources for Author Impact

May 14th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments

Looking for ways to assess your impact as an author? Take a look at some of the following resources: SCOPUS (subscription required) SCOPUS provides an Author Search option that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a particular author’s work since 1996. The Citation Tracker feature also allows for generation of [...]

Enhancing Your Impact

April 3rd, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments

How can authors enhance the impact and visibility of their work? One way is to use the same variation of your name consistently throughout your academic career. If your name is a common name, add a middle name to distinguish yourself from other authors. Standardize your output to maximize your impact. Retain rights to your [...]

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