In the past year, Altmetric has tracked over 17 million mentions of 2.7 million different research outputs and selected the top 100 most-discussed journal articles of 2016. Altmetric tracks mentions of works on social media, mainstream media, blogs, and other platforms. Four of the 100 articles were authored by authors from Washington University.
Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) recently released Highly Cited Researchers 2016, a list recognizing leading researchers in the Sciences and Social Sciences from around the world.
Becker Medical Library is offering trial access to InCites, a research analytics platform produced by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters). Web of Science, EndNote and Journal Citation Reports are other resources from Clarivate Analytics. Trial access to InCites will start on 14 November and end 15 December 2016. InCites is based on publication/citation data from [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing Round-up November 2016 Federally Funded Research Results Are Becoming More Open and Accessible by Jerry Sheehan from the office of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Sixteen Federal agencies now require researchers to ensure free public access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from all newly funded research, with a delay of [Read more]
Scholarly Publishing Round-up September 2016
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Have you heard of the h-index, but perhaps have questions about what it is precisely, how it is calculated, and how it should be interpreted?
Journal Citation Reports
The 2015 edition of Journal Citation Reports is now available. For more information, see the Notice.
The Relative Citation Ratio (RCR) was recently released by the NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis and is intended to measure citation impact by field and timing of publication.
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