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Do Journal Article Recommendation Features Change Reader Behavior?
Researchers say journal article recommendations are useful. Do these publisher platform features influence user behavior? How might they increase discovery and serendipity in the researcher’s workflow? A series of studies provide new evidence of increased reader...
Making your article visible with SEO
Make sure your article gets the attention it deserves. Is your article hiding among millions of others, difficult to find and not being read as a result? If it is, you’re not alone; great research can go relatively unnoticed if it’s not highlighted and indexed in the...
2017 Scholar Metrics Released
Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. GS is releasing the 2017 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2012–2016 and includes citations...
Blacklist of predatory journals: Jeffrey Beall’s list is dead, Cabell’s paying list is live
Five months after Jeffrey Beall shut down his widely consulted blog that listed predatory journals and publishers, Cabell’s International launched Cabell’s Blacklist, a list of predatory journals, on June 15. Read...
Top journals by impact factor – Latest JCR is released
From the press release: The 2017 release, with 2016 citation data for literature within the sciences and social sciences, features 11,459 journal listings in 236 disciplines; 81 countries are represented. A total of 132 journals received their first JIF. Below, top...
2016 Google Scholar Metrics
This year's release covers "articles published between 2011 and 2015, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2016. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves...
Altmetric Unveils Top 100 Research Papers of the Year
Altmetric released its annual Top 100 list of published research papers that have generated significant online attention and discussion from all over the world, including from post-publication peer-review forums, patient advocacy groups, mainstream news media, and...
Journal Impact Factor: what – or who – makes a citable item?
In this article from The Scholarly Kitchen, Phil Davis makes a suggestion for an algorithm driven process in determining what makes an item citatable or not. The goal would be to remove human bias as much as possible in selecting what Thomson Reuters considers a...
The teaching score: a new metric?
This article from the New York Times present the Open Syllabus Project The Syllabus Explorer tool lets users search 1 million syllabi, used in the past 10 years, mostly in the US and English speaking countries, and presents a teaching score metric: "Teaching Score’...
96 things publishers do…
Guest post on the The Scholarly Kitchen blog from Ken Anderson. Top 5: Audience/field detection and cultivation. Journal launch and registration Create and establish a viable brand Make money and remain a constant in the system of scholarly output. Plan and create...
The Reproducibility Project finds a minority of studies can be replicated
. An attempt to estimate the reproducibility of psychological research has found that only 39% of results from three leading psychology journals could be reproduced. Read the article from the Atlantic Monthly How Reliable Are Psychology Studies? Visit the site for...
2015 Google Scholar Metrics
This year's release covers "articles published between 2010 and 2014, both inclusive. The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar in June 2015. This also includes citations from articles that are not themselves covered by...