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The Impact Factor: A Tool from a Bygone Era?

Image via Wikipedia A traditional, objective measure of scholarly journals is the Impact Factor (IF). First formulated by Eugene Garfield in the 1950s, the premise is to measure the propagation… more →

The Scholarly Kitchen

Book Buying Habits -- Evolving and Online — 5 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 3 weeks ago: Recently, Bowker released book-purchasing and reading habits for 2008, derived from a 60-75 question … more →

Tags: advertising, Books, Reading, Amazon kindle, Detective fiction, Shopping

The Consumer Price Index and the Argument for OA — 3 comments

Philip Davis wrote 1 month ago: ARL serials and monograph inflation The essential core of what has been called “the serials cr … more →

Tags: Authority, Education, Consumer Price Index (CPI), crisis in scholarly communication, Higher Education Price Index, Journal Prices, open access, subscription costs

Online Audience Growing Fast

Kent Anderson wrote 2 months ago: While real estate, finance, and mainstream media (especially print vehicles) are struggling, the onl … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, social role, technology, Research, Business models, Usability, advertising, Google, facebook

The Paradox of Persistence in an Attention Economy — 8 comments

Philip Davis wrote 2 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Persistence may not be the key to success in an attention economy.  In fa … more →

Tags: Research, Social Media, technology, Attention Economy, academic publishing, YouTube, HP Labs, Downloads

Google Wants Your Links, Not Your Content — 3 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 2 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Recently, there has been a great deal of hand-wringing over the Google Bo … more →

Tags: controversial topics, World of Tomorrow, Authority, social role, technology, Research, Books, Copyright, Business models

Are e-Books Already Mainstream? — 3 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 2 months ago: As usual, our users are ahead of us. While we’ve been debating and cogitating on the future of … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, Tools, Reading, technology, Research, experimentation, Authors, Books, Business models

InCites -- More Counting, But Does It Count? — 1 comment

Kent Anderson wrote 3 months ago: Image by mujitra (´･ω･) via Flickr Thomson Reuters is launching a new service called InCites, … more →

Tags: Authority, Authors, Research, technology, Tools, dow jones industrial average, Investing, Reuters, Rhetoric

Usage Map of Science — 1 comment

Philip Davis wrote 3 months ago: Every time you conduct a search, click on a link, or view a document, you leave a trail.  By aggrega … more →

Tags: Research, journals, map, Usage

Twitter in Plain English — 2 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 3 months ago: Twitter has moved into the mainstream. If you’re still not on it, here’s a little film f … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, Tools, technology, experimentation, Authors, social network, twitter

Hulu Dances to the Forefront — 5 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 4 months ago: Image via CrunchBase Online video left the station a few years ago, riding YouTube to promine … more →

Tags: Business models, experimentation, Research, Sociology, technology, Tools, Usability, Business Model, Hulu

Open Access and Global Participation in Science — 4 comments

Philip Davis wrote 4 months ago: World income map, Wikipedia Free access to the scientific literature has the greatest effect … more →

Tags: controversial topics, Sociology, Research, open access, journals, academic publishing, Citations, developing nations

Scientific Impact Measures Compared — 6 comments

Philip Davis wrote 4 months ago: Scientific impact has become synonymous with the counting of citations. That this measurement has hu … more →

Tags: Authority, Research, Article downloads, Impact factor, journals, principal component analysis, scientific impact

Email -- The Killer App (Again!) — 5 comments

Kent Anderson wrote 4 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, email was the killer application of th … more →

Tags: Historical, Reading, Social Media, technology, Tools, Usability, World of Tomorrow, eMail, iPhone

ISI Draws Fire from Citation Researchers, Librarians — 1 comment

Philip Davis wrote 4 months ago: House Numbers. Image by Stewf via Flickr A new document classification is creating confusion … more →

Tags: controversial topics, Authority, Tools, Impact factor, bibliometrics, Web of Science

Partial Publication Credit — 3 comments

Philip Davis wrote 5 months ago: Fractional credit. Image via Wikipedia Science rewards those who make their discoveries publi … more →

Tags: Authority, Research, Citations, authorship, publication credit, coauthors

Metrics for the Humanities

Philip Davis wrote 5 months ago: Pandora. Image via Wikipedia The institution of science thrives on indicators.  Public and pr … more →

Tags: Authority, Education, social role, Higher Education, Humanities Indicators Prototype, indicators, Metrics, Pandora, Pandora's Box

Open Access: No Benefit for Poor Scientists — 8 comments

Philip Davis wrote 5 months ago: Image via Wikipedia Open Access has a moral agenda: to increase the flow of scientific inform … more →

Tags: Business models, controversial topics, Research, authorship, citation analysis, developing country, John Willinsky, journals, open access

Funding UK Research

Philip Davis wrote 5 months ago: Image by minxlabs via Flickr How many scientists does it take to decide how to allocate resea … more →

Tags: controversial topics, Authority, Peer Review, publications, Research Assessment Exercise, RAE

Data Depart = Newspapers Die? — 1 comment

Kent Anderson wrote 6 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I was listening to a recent edition of the Backstory podcast, and a comme … more →

Tags: World of Tomorrow, Authority, Historical, social role, Authors, Newspapers


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