Comment & practical guidance from the LIS-Bibliometrics community
Every year for the last three years I have 'taken the temperature' of the HE community regarding responsible metrics using a short survey. The surveys have been advertised to the Lis-Bibliometrics Forum and the ARMA Metrics Special Interest Group. Back in 2015 I was keen to understand whether and how universities were responding to the … Continue reading Responsible metrics: easier said than done? By Lizzie Gadd
A few months ago I asked the lis-bibliometrics list how institutions that had purchased SciVal had rolled it out across their respective universities. We have recently taken out a subscription to SciVal at my own institution (De Montfort University in Leicester, UK) and we are starting to think about the services and support we want … Continue reading Summary of different institutions’ approach to rolling out SciVal and support services. Guest post by Jenny Coombs.
Welcome to the first Altmetrics Research Roundup! In these regular posts, I’ll be sharing and summarizing the altmetrics research that’s most relevant to practicing bibliometricians’ daily work. In other words, I’ll stay on top of the literature so you don’t have to. Our first post will cover an important but relatively unknown issue in altmetrics: … Continue reading Tips for reading and interpreting altmetrics research (Guest post by Stacy Konkiel)
...and when I say, read this, I don't mean this blog post, I mean, this: Yves Gingras's "Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: uses and abuses" (2016, MIT Press). And here are my top 6 reasons why I heartily recommend this book to practitioners:- It's short. I know this shouldn't be one's primary consideration when selecting a … Continue reading Starting out in bibliometrics? Read this…
There are many stakeholders in the world of research evaluation by numbers, and the Metric Tide Report did a great job of teasing out who should be doing what. At the ARMA Conference this year, the Metrics Special Interest Group (SIG) brought together a fantastic panel of those stakeholders to get an understanding of how they have responded to the Metric Tide report: what is happening in the world of responsible metrics, and what needs to happen next?
Like most institutions, the release of the Metric Tide report in July 2015 came at a busy time for us. We were in the midst of a REF open access campaign, continuing our work to embed our CRIS (Pure) into institutional processes, and thinking about how to increase our research data management provisions without breaking the bank.
Kick starting the series of "In a day of a Bibliomagician" we focus on what it is like to be a Bibliometrician in Canada. Shannon Gordon who is a Bibliometrics and Reseach Impact Librarian at the University of Waterloo, shares with us her experience. Here is her interview. Shannon, thank you very much for agreeing … Continue reading In a day of a Bibliomagician (Shannon Gordon)
