Why are some Journal Impact Factors Anomalous?
One of the consequences of the pareto-like distribution of citations amongst articles is that a small number of highly cited articles can exert an overwhelming effect on the Impact Factor. Large...
View ArticleThe Eigenfactor and Other Metrics – Plus Ça Change
At the beginning of February 2009, ISI’s Journal Citation Report (JCR) underwent a radical transformation. Alongside the standard journal level metrics such as Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, and Total...
View ArticleNew podcast, Journal Metrics: The Impact Factor and Everything Else, to...
If you are a journal metrics expert, and can tell your IF from your SNIP from your Eigenfactor in the dark and blindfolded, then you can stop reading now. If, however, you are like the rest of us...
View ArticleArticle Metrics and Discoverability
Impact Factor (IF) is the most widely accepted metric in the journal business. It attempts to measure a journals impact by analyzing how many times articles published in that journal are cited by...
View ArticleMetrics and User Habits Understanding our Readers
Wiley is in the middle of two interesting projects aimed at understanding what our readers want, and how they interact with our content. As part of its online subject strategy for chemistry, the Online...
View ArticleStar Metrics
STAR METRICS stands for Science and Technology in Americas Reinvestment Measuring the EffecTs of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science, and is the result of collaboration between the...
View ArticleDoes PR Impact Citations?
In 2004, Wiley Blackwell started a publicity program to promote our journal content to the public through article-level press releases. Our initial goal was to support the educational mission of our...
View ArticleMetrics Alternatives to Altmetrics?
There has been a significant increase in focus on Altmetrics in the last 612 months, with services such as ImpactStory and Altmetric receiving much attention. Its easy to forget that, while at least...
View ArticleArticle level metrics: Painting a fuller picture
Article level metrics (ALMs) have become an important tool to establish a more complete picture of the impact of individual papers, distinct from the publication in which they appear. While more...
View ArticleAnalytics Astronomy: Unlocking the Physics of the Web
The ancient Hawaiians believed the peak of Mauna Kea was one of the most sacred places in the world, and when you stand here looking out at the tops of clouds, you don’t just see why – you feel why....
View ArticleDORA and the Impact Factor debate
Summer is Impact Factor (IF) season. Publishers, societies, and journal editors the world over anxiously await the outcome of the latest version of the Thomson Reuters® Journal Citation Reports (JCR)....
View ArticleImpact of discovery tools on e-book usage
What impact do discovery tools have on the use of science and engineering e-book collections? This collaborative study compares usage data at four Canadian academic libraries (McGill University,...
View Article10 challenges scholarly publishers are facing
In a recent posting to this blog, Emily Gillingham reported on some of what she and her colleagues learned from a recent meeting of Wiley Blackwell’s North American Customer Advisory...
View ArticleThe EASE Science Editor’s Handbook – a well-stocked toolbox for new and old...
The EASE Science Editor’s Handbook – a well-stocked toolbox for new and old handsScience Editor’s Handbook 2nd edition, edited by Pippa Smart, Hervé Maisonneuve and Arjan Polderman. European...
View ArticleWiley partners with Kudos to help authors optimize article impact
Wiley partners with Kudos to help authors optimize article impactLast week, Wiley announced a new partnership with Kudos to enable authors to measure, monitor, and maximize the usage and impact of...
View ArticleWiley introduces Altmetrics to its Open Access journals
Wiley introduces Altmetrics to its Open Access journalsIn May of last year, Wiley partnered with Altmetric to pilot alternative metrics across a number of subscription and open access journals. While...
View ArticleBlueJC: post-publication peer review for an international network
BlueJC: post-publication peer review for an international networkAt the beginning of 2014, Twitter had 645,750,000 active registered users, with 135 000 new users signing up every day. The number of...
View ArticleAnother year, a lot more change: a report from the 2014 PSP meeting
Another year, a lot more change: a report from the 2014 PSP meetingThe theme of the 2014 Professional Scholarly Publishing (PSP) conference was “Meeting the challenges of change.” Effectively this...
View ArticleHow to navigate the world of citation metrics
How to navigate the world of citation metricsSince 2009, the number of journal research papers has increased at an average of 4% per year.1 Within this growing (and rapidly changing) research...
View ArticleAltmetric is now on board for all Wiley journals
Altmetric is now on board for all Wiley journalsAfter a successful, six month pilot program, we’re pleased to roll out Altmetric today across all Wiley journals. Altmetric is the service that tracks...
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