Conveners
Plenary 2: Metrics
- Frank Scholze
Mr
Johan Bollen
(Indiana U.)
19/06/2013, 15:30
The interest in developing scholarly impact metrics is frequently justified by the need to objectively prioritize scarce resources and to better manage scholarly productivity. However, the study of scholarly communication in general, including scholarly impact metrics, has significant relevance to a number of other scientific domains such as computational social science, social network...
Mr
Euan Adie
(Digital Science)
19/06/2013, 16:00
The field of altmetrics is based on the online activity around articles. How much of this exists, where is it happening and who is involved? Altmetric.com has been tracking this data for publishers, funders and institutions since July 2011 and in this talk we'll make some general observations and highlight interesting trends.
Mr
Jelte M. Wicherts
(Tilburg Univ.)
19/06/2013, 16:30
The peer review system is a standard control mechanism in scholarly publishing. Despite its centrality in science, peer-review typically takes place behind closed curtains. For both established and Open Access journals this obscurity may give room to substandard peer-reviews. I contend that transparency concerning the peer-review process at academic journals can be viewed as an indicator of...
