Category: Citation metrics

Scholarly Publications Update - School Review Information Session

Published: Mon, 2013-02-25 11:37 by Jane Smeathers

4 March 2013 2 - 4pm:

To support UQ Schools undergoing formal review in 2013, UQ Library is hosting an information session to demonstrate how to get the most out of research publication data.

The session will involve staff from both the UQ Library and Research Analysis & Operations and will include information about the reports that are accessible via the MIS reportal and eSpace, as well as other databases such as Web of Science, Scopus and InCites.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This session will be relevant to Heads of Schools, School Managers and those responsible for the data presented in the School Review.

WHY ATTEND:

The session will look at the types of publication metrics that are available and what they mean in the context of a School Review.

Information will include:

benchmarking publication outputs
relative citation impact within different disciplines
collaboration metrics

Examples will be provided using tools and services available via the Library include:

HERDC data
ERA2012 data
eSpace data
InCites
ResearcherID and Web of Science
Scopus Custom Data visualisation
Officially reported staff FTE
Officially reported RHD Load and Completions
School level data comparison of Go8 Universities (Load; Completions; Staff FTE; HERDC Income and Publications)
Q-Index data

These tools will be demonstrated, including practical examples of how the data can be presented.

When: Monday 4th March, 2 - 4 pm
Where: Don Carruthers Exchange Zone, level 5, Dorothy Hill Library, Hawken Building
Who should attend: This session will be relevant to Heads of Schools, School Managers and those responsible for the data presented in the School Review.

For more information email Jane Smeathers

Please note: Limited spaces available. Contact: j.smeathers@library.uq.edu.au

Blog written by Dr Amberyn Thomas | Manager, Scholarly Publications

Thomson Reuters to Expand Book Citation Index

Published: Wed, 2013-01-23 13:57 by Jane Smeathers

In a recent announcement from Thomson Reuters the Book Citation Index is expanding, with a new partnerships arrangements with top publishers such as Elsevier, Johns Hopkins University Press and the University of Chicago Press. These publishers, among others, will greatly enhance available content in the Index by adding 10,000 books in 2013, increasing the total to nearly 50,000 books from a variety of commercial, non-profit and university presses worldwide (Thomson Reuters, Jan 2013).

For further information go to Thomson Reuter Book Citation Index.

Beyond Publish or Perish: Alternative Metrics for Scholarship

Published: Wed, 2012-11-21 10:21 by Miranda Mariette

Scrutiny of scholarly publications and research data has traditionally been undertaken through peer review and proprietary bibliometrics. But should article level metrics alone be used to evaluate the impact of research? Increasingly practitioners are turning to social networks such as blogs, Twitter and Mendeley to assess the scholarly impact of published works.

NISO, the National Information Standards Organization, a non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently held a webinar to discuss the opportunities (and challenges) of alternative metrics, from issues in collecting data to interesting results of data analysis.