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Once upon a time, journals were made of paper and ink. However, we left the dark ages of dead woods behind us and moved forward to an age in which authors don’t need to publish in journals (but still want to). There’s an increasing decoupling between the individual article and its publishing journal, created by [...]
Vincent Lariviere, George A. Lozano & Yves Gingras (2013). Are elite journals declining?, ArXiv, arXiv: 1304.6460v1
George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere & Yves Gingras (2012). The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor and papers'
citations in the digital age, ArXiv, arXiv: 1205.4328v1
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I am tired of explaining to students that the URL for a database entry they copied and pasted from their browser won’t work. Here is the problem: A student searches for high quality content in a database that the library pays a lot of money for. Finding a great article, they copy and paste the [...]
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The new Leiden Ranking (LR) has just been published, and I would like to talk a bit about its indicators, what it represents and equally important – what it doesn’t represent. The LR is a purely bibliometrical ranking, based on data from Thomson-Reuters’ Web of Science database (there’s another bibliometrical ranking, Scimago, but it’s based [...]
Waltman, L., Calero-Medina, C., Kosten, J., Noyons, E., Tijssen, R., van Eck, N., van Leeuwen, T., van Raan, A., Visser, M. & Wouters, P. & (2012). The Leiden ranking 2011/2012: Data collection, indicators, and interpretation, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63 (12) 2419-2432. DOI: 10.1002/asi.22708
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“Excuse me; the whole tenure system is ridiculous. A guaranteed job for life only encourages the faculty to become complacent. If we really want science to advance, people should have chips implanted in their skulls that explode when they say something stupid.” Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory Between the recent ACUMEN (academic careers understood [...]
Abbott, A., Cyranoski, D., Jones, N., Maher, B., Schiermeier, Q. & Van Noorden, R. (2010). Metrics: Do metrics matter?, Nature, 465 (7300) 860-862. DOI: 10.1038/465860a
Clawson, D. (2009). Tenure and the Future of the University, Science, 324 (5931) 1147-1148. DOI: 10.1126/science.1172995
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Earlier this week, my favorite citation management tool Mendeley announced that it had sold itself to a very large, for-profit scholarly publishing company, Elsevier. There have been mixed reactions to this. Mendeley is useful to academics and researchers on several fronts. The desktop application helps folks organize all the PDFs of journal articles that live [...]
