How can authors of books and book chapters track the impact of their published works? Several ways include: How many libraries hold the book in their collections? Check WorldCat to find how many libraries have a record for the book in their collections. Are there any book reviews? To find book reviews, check bibliographic databases [...]
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A traditional publication report captures the research output of an author ranging from peer-reviewed journal articles, invited or contributed conference abstracts, books, book chapters, etc. Further analysis of publication data can reveal co-author collaborations, publication patterns, extent of interdisciplinary research, grant acknowledgement networks and citation influence. These are all tangible examples of measures of scientific [...]
Talley, et al. Database of NIH grants using machine-learned categories and graphical clustering. Nature Methods. Volume: 8, Pages: 443–444. (2011). To facilitate navigation and discovery of NIH-funded research, the authors created a database that uses text mining to extract latent categories and clusters from NIH grant titles and abstracts.
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“OSTP is happy to announce the launch of the beta version of a new online tool that allows the public to track U.S. progress in innovation. The R&D Dashboard is a new website that helps users document and demonstrate the impacts of Federal investments in research and development (R&D).”
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idR offers overlay maps of science as a method to explore the degree of interdisciplinarity of a set of publications from Thomson Reuters Web of Science data or a Pajek vector file. The overlay technique visualizes the spread of publications over the global map of science, i.e. the structure of science as obtained from the [...]
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“. . . have you ever wondered who is actually citing you? Being cited by your colleagues and junior researchers in your department is one thing, but what if your academic hero cites your work? Imagine finding out that your paper was read and acknowledged by the leading researcher(s) in your field; would that not [...]
Martin Fenner’s Gobbledygook blog post, Scientific Attribution Principles, outlines an excellent set of points related to authors and scholarly research activities. Proper assigning of credit for scholarly work requires the ability to uniquely identify specific contributors to research. Proper assigning of credit for scientific work requires the ability to uniquely identify specific scientific contributions. In [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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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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