Library & Information Services » citation analysis http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis We Bring Knowledge to You Fri, 17 May 2013 20:06:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Another article on measuring scholarly publishing impact http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2012/11/20/another-article-on-measuring-scholarly-publishing-impact/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2012/11/20/another-article-on-measuring-scholarly-publishing-impact/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:25:37 +0000 Brenda Ellis http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=30759 Continue reading →]]> Last week Arabella posted a link to an article on this subject. The November 2012 issue of College & Research Libraries News has a useful article that describes the various methods for measuring research impacts.  See From bibliometrics to altmetrics: A changing scholarly landscape.  It describes resources such as Scopus, which we subscribe to, as well as free resources such as Google Scholar Citations.  Relevant organizations and networks are also listed.  It’s worth a skim at least.

]]> http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2012/11/20/another-article-on-measuring-scholarly-publishing-impact/feed/ 0 Predict Nobel Laureates with Library Database http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/02/22/predict-nobel-laureates-with-library-database/ http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/2010/02/22/predict-nobel-laureates-with-library-database/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:52:42 +0000 Brenda Ellis http://sites.middlebury.edu/lis/?p=22384 Continue reading →]]> The Library subscribes to Web of Science, which is the platform for Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index.  Since 1989,  the publisher of Web of Science, Thomson Reuters, has correctly predicted at least one Nobel Laureate each year using citation analysis from these databases.  See the full story here: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/news/2009-10/8551997/

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