The teaching score: a new metric?

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...

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...

2015 Academic Reputation Survey

Thomson Reuters released its 6th annual Academic Reputation Survey: “Exploring Scholarly Trends and Shifts Impacting the Academic Reputation of the World’s Leading Universities”. The report analyzes the key trends and shifts in global research influencing...

2015 List of Predatory Publishers

As of January 2017, J. Beall has shut down his blog.5th update to the annual list of predatory publishers by J. Beall, librarian from the University of Colorado Denver. In addition the usual lists, there are now a list for Misleading Metrics and one for Hijacked...