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| Post-Publication Peer Review: What Value Do Usage-Based Metrics Offer? Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:37 AM PDT The Scholarly Kitchen, (19 Apr 2012) Extracts: (“altmetrics“) perhaps the greatest hope for near-term improvement in our post-publication understanding of a paper’s value. The Impact Factor is a reasonable, if flawed measurement of a journal, but a terrible method for measuring the quality of work in individual papers or from individual researchers. ... If we want to replace the Impact Factor, then we need to offer something that does a better job of measuring quality. Unfortunately, many of the new proposed metrics measure something different altogether. They seem chosen because they’re easy to determine, rather than because they’re important. ... So far we’re mining all the easy and obvious metrics we can find. But they don’t offer us the information we really need. Until better metrics that truly deliver meaningful data on impact are offered, the altmetrics approach is in danger of stalling out. |
| The next revolution in Science: Open Access will open new ways to measure scientific output Posted: 19 Apr 2012 09:31 AM PDT @ccess, Open Knowledge Foundation, (19 Apr 2012) Extracts: The H-Index, Google Scholar metrics and the JIF are all rather good indicators of scientific quality. However, in measuring real-world impact they are seriously flawed. Think for a moment of how impact is felt for whatever random topic you can think of. Everyone of us will consider the publication itself, but probably also downloads, pageviews, blogs, comments, Twitter, different kinds of media and social network activity (Google+, Facebook), among other things. In other words, all activities that can be measured by “talking” through social media and other online activities can be used to give a more realistic impression of the real impact of a given research article. ... Compared with the current practices, all of which are based on citations only, the inclusion of altmetrics plus online usage statistics and post-publication peer-review in an open access world will represent a true revolution in the way that science is perceived |
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