Comment & practical guidance from the LIS-Bibliometrics community
On 26th March 2018, the Lis-Bibliometrics Forum launched a practical course: Statistics for Responsible Metrics aimed to offer a bespoke training that focused exclusively on statistics for bibliometrics. In this post, Dr Abigail McBirnie gives a summary of what happened on the day. If the growth of the Lis-Bibliometrics forum is anything to go by, …
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In this post, Stacy Konkiel summaries feedback of a recently posed question in identifying authors' genders based upon names listed on ~2,000 journal articles--too large a corpus for manual analysis. Recently on the LIS-Bibliometrics listserv, Ruth Harrison (Imperial College London) posed a question on behalf of a patron who was interested in identifying authors’ genders …
Lizzie Gadd spent some time with the Research Intelligence Network of the Netherlands, and explains why she's a little bit in love with the Dutch... A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Amsterdam talking to research evaluation colleagues from across the Netherlands. It was the second meeting …
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Introducing the recently launched The Metrics Toolkit - Stacy Konkiel outlines what it is, why it was created, and how it can be used by practitioners working in research impact management. In January, The Metrics Toolkit launched to much interest from academics in the US and UK. The Metrics Toolkit is an online resource aimed …
Katie Evans looks at the wider context of responsible metrics and asks what the ingredients of a culture of responsibility might be. I talk to academics about bibliometrics on an almost daily basis. One conversation that stands out for me started with the academic asking to meet me because they “disagreed with metrics”. To my …
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