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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.

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.

Research news this week in The Conversation reported that

Total-Impact has been awarded $125k from the Sloan Foundation to expand its facilities for measuring the impact of research artefacts.

The UK-based Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) group aims to develop a network of library and information science researchers by bringing them together at five events over the 18-month duration of the project.

The current system of measuring research impact, by traditional means like journal impact factors, may show how often a journal is cited, but says nothing about how its articles are really being used.

Anyone with a Google account can now check their citation metrics with the new Google Scholar Citations. Authors can manually add articles, so you have control over the artilces included in the citation analysis.

How can you keep track of your citation metrics? Do you ever wonder why they are important for your grant applications?

Come along to this seminar presented by Dr Amberyn Thomas and find out about the increasing role of citation metrics in measuring research performance. At this seminar, we will look at the field of citation metrics as it relates to grant applications, and show you some of the tools that can assist you.