The traditional ways in which promotion and tenure committees assess scholarship — whether quantitatively or qualitatively — are either inappropriate or insufficient for capturing its true value, a…

Building on the results of a survey circulated to US and Canadian universities to understand current approaches for defining technology transfer activities and recognizing them as part of faculty performance assessments, a task force of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has made recommendations for how universities might go about taking into account the value of technology transfer and concomitant social benefits as part of tenure and promotion considerations.

From multi-stakeholder platforms like ORCID, to commercial services like Google Scholar, academic profiles exist in a complex landscape of information flows. Lambert Heller provides an overview of …

Presented at the ASIS&T SIG/MET 2015 workshop in St. Louis, MO, USA on 7 November 2015.  Background:   Though altmetrics are commonly thought of as capturing the attention that research receives on social media (Priem, Taraborelli, Groth, & Neylon, 2010), metrics like citations to research in public policy documents are increasingly being used to understand the influence that research is having upon the public sector. Altmetric Explorer is currently the only altmetrics aggregator that tracks this information, using text mining to search the policy documents of international government agencies, NGOs, and other influential policymakers to extract citations. Currently, it is unclear how long it takes for a research article to be cited in public policy documents after the article has been published.   Objective:  This exploratory study set out to determine the citation lag for articles indexed in Altmetric Explorer that have been cited at least once in public policy documents. Articles identified as having a large volume of online attention are compared to a random sample of articles to understand if articles with greater overall exposure might be cited any earlier than other articles. Other altmetrics like Mendeley reader counts and mainstream media mentions are also compared across the two groups of articles, to discover differences in types of attention both groups might receive.

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — Reviewing Peer Review at the NIH

THE MODEL FOR ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH IMPACT IS A FRAMEWORK FOR TRACKING DIFFUSION OF RESEARCH OUTPUTS AND ACTIVITIES TO LOCATE INDICATORS THAT DEMONSTRATE EVIDENCE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH IMPACT.

Articles that are free to view are also more frequently shared on Facebook, new research finds

As altmetrics have emerged, grown, and evolved, so has the role that academic librarians play in supporting altmetrics, bibliometrics, and citation impact.

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This is a guest post from Daniel Mügge who is an associate professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam and the lead editor of the Review of International Political Economy. In two…

Impact is multi-dimensional, the routes by which impact occur are different across disciplines and sectors, and impact changes over time. Jane Tinkler argues that if institutions like HEFCE specify…

The Metric Tide report: part of an independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment. What is metrics-based research assessment?...

This study explores the extent to which research published in Latin America—where the vast majority of which is made freely available to the public—has an impact and reach beyond the academic commu...

This post was originally published as the forward to Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian’s Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact [paywall, embargoed for 6mo]. It’s also persistently archived on figshare. A few days ago, we were speaking with an ecologist from Simon Fraser University here in Vancouver, about an unsolicited job offer he’d recently […]

This is a guest post contributed by Heather Coates, Digital Scholarship & Data Management Librarian at IUPUI.  My perspective as a tenure-track librarian tends to be that of a practitioner-rese…