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Latest JCR released, see the top journals in your field!
Thomson Reuters has released its latest Journal Citation Report.You can access this tool on your library page here.Here are the top 10 journals by impact factor for the Economics categoryJournal of Economic Literature Journal of Finance ...
2014 Google Scholar Metrics report released
Last month Google Scholar released its Scholar Metrics report for 2014, link to the Business, Economics & Management area."This release is based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of mid-June 2013 and covers articles...
Librarians and Impact
Elsevier's infographic "tells the story of how librarians are working with researchers and the research office to measure research impact and to explore the application of these measurements"See more
Journal Subscription Costs
Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers who had launched the 2012 Elsevier boycott movement digs deeper into the publishing giant business practices and the various ways it charges universities and schools . Read his entire blog entry: Elsevier journals...
2013-2014 AAUP Faculty Salary Survey
Another survey on faculty salary in the US.The table is available on the Chronicle of Higher Education website:
Faculty in Higher Education Salary Survey 2014
CUPAHR, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, has released its latest faculty salary survey: Salaries of Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty at 4-Year Colleges, 2013-14The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about...
ISNI: International Standard Name Identifier
Author name disambiguation has become increasingly important with the rise of bibliometrics.This article/interview from the Scholarly Kitchen by Todd Carpenter explains the goal of ISNI: the International Standard Name...
Academic publishers remove fake papers from journals
Following revelations from French researcher Cyril Labbé, well-known editors such as IEEE or Springer had to remove conference proceeding papers created using SCIgen, a MIT-developed tool that creates computer-generated academic articles.Read article in...
ShareLaTeX now open source
LaTeX users may already be using the ShareLaTex tool a web-based real-time collaborative LaTeX editor.ShareLaTex is now open source, the authors hope that by opening up the code to all, requests for new features will be met faster than what their current...
One year with MOOCs, research findings from the first 17 edX classes
Courtesy of: MOOCs.comProfessors from MIT and Harvard report on their first year in MOOCs and the edX project: MITx working papersHarvardX Working PapersThere were 841,687 registrations from 597,692 unique usersOnly 5 percent earned a certificate of...
Journal ranking by Scopus
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a "portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database."It offers finer levels of business and management categories than the - more well-known -...
2014 Updated List of Predatory Publishers
As of January 2017, J. Beall has shut down his blog.Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Initiatives Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, has released the 2014 list of predatory publishers and questionable journals.Reproduced with...