Announcement: New LIS-Bibliometrics Committee Co-Chairs

LIS-Bibliometrics are delighted to announce the appointment of Robyn Price and Zosia Beckles as the new Co-Chairs of the LIS-Bibliometrics Committee. They bring with them a wide range of analytics experience across the UK HE and research sectors.  Zosia is currently Research Information Analyst at the University of Bristol, responsible for the launch and development …

LIS-Bibliometrics Conference 2022

“Measuring what matters” Call for conference committee members This year’s LIS-Bibliometrics Conference on the theme of “Measuring what matters” will be held online in September 2022. We are seeking volunteers from across and beyond the HE sector to join the organising committee. You will have an opportunity to help shape and deliver an international conference, …

Brace for impact: thoughts on the 2022 THE Impact Ranking

Robyn Price from Imperial College London briefs us on details of the THE Impact Ranking methodology The fourth edition of The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking is set to publish in April 2022 and will surely be followed by participating institutions communicating successful performance in it and non-participating institutions might be considering whether to …

How (not) to incentivise open research

Lizzie Gadd makes the case for open research being required not rewarded. I recently attended two events: the first was a workshop run by the ON-MERRIT team, a Horizon 2020 project seeking to understand how open research practices might actually worsen existing inequalities. And the second was the UKRI Enhancing Research Culture event at which I …

2021 LIS-Bibliometrics Conference Wrap Up

2021's LIS B conference, like many things this year, required some changes. As we moved the conference online, we had to figure out which platform would be the easiest to use for presenters and attendees, how best to accommodate presenters in multiple time zones, and what we would do if all of the more than …