Category: Citation metrics
Scholarly Publications Update - School Review Information Session
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
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Thomson Reuters to Expand Book Citation Index
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.
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Beyond Publish or Perish: Alternative Metrics for Scholarship
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.
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In the News: Australian University Rankings
Simon Marginson reported in The Australian this week, "We're fighting above our weight when it comes to uni ranking". The article examines how Australian Universities compare within the global rankings.
Visit The Australian, 18th July Higher Education Supplement to read this article.
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In the News: The Long Tail of Academic Publishing
David Glance, Director of the Centre for Software Practices at University of Western Australia wrote in The Conversation on the 8th July 2012, a thought provoking article on the long tail of academic publishing. The main point being, that the high publication rates of a few high achieving academics is generally matched by the many academics with modest outputs and that universities should not overlook this fact.
David Glance stated:
As a consequence of government funding approaches and global university
ranking schemes, universities have been encouraged to look at the quantity of
overall output from their institutions. This has caused some universities to
focus on the "short head" part of the distribution, imagining how good it would
be to expand that section by having every academic be a "hit" and move into the
head of the distribution.
Visit The Conversation to read this article - The long tail of academic publishing and why it isn't a bad thing.
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Journal Citation Report 2011 data now available
Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2011 has been released. Journal Citation Reports uses Web of Science citation data to evaluate and compare scholarly journals. The 2011 release features the largest-ever JCR with 10,677 journal listings in 232 disciplines; 2,552 publishers from 82 countries are represented. A total of 528 journals receive their first Journal Impact Factor in this latest JCR release.
The full list of journals included in JCR 2011 is here. Find the release detalils on the Thomson Reuters website.
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Research News - Australian universities to test new science metrics system
Research
news this week in The
Conversation reported that
"The University of Melbourne and Australian National University will perform a "stocktake" of all scientific research projects at the two institutions from the electronic era in an effort to map their social and commercial returns"
A feasibility study will commence in 2013 examining research funding within the two universities and how it relates to publication numbers, influences policy and patents. Professor Paul Jensen, who will be overseeing the project, hopes that this initial study will help the science community to be able to quantify their returns on investment in science.
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