Official Full-Text Publication: The counting house, measuring those who count: Presence of Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics and Altmetrics in Google Scholar Citations, ResearcherID, ResearchGate, Mendeley, & Twitter on ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.
Analyse de la provenance des Full-Texts sur GS. Google Scholar, a widely used academic search engine, plays a major role in finding free full-text versions of articles. But little is known about the sources of full-text files in Google Scholar.
PLOS ONE's 2015 Impact Factor is expected to rise, the result of its shrinking size. As reported earlier this year, the open access mega-journal has experienced two successive declines in article output, from a peak of 31,509 research papers in 2013 to 28,107 in 2015-a reduction of 3,402 papers or 11%.
Discussing the Journal Impact Factor inevitably leads one down a rabbit hole. While the numerator of the ratio (total citations) to the journal is clear enough, the denominator (citable items) causes great confusion, and getting a clear answer to its construction requires real work.
Last week ORCID published the results of its first major survey. Around 6,000 respondents globally - ORCID record holders and non record holders - provided feedback on their perceptions
Is there a name for that sensation that "it seemed like yesterday ... and yet, also, forever ago"? That's how I felt on learning that it's already / only five years since the " altmetrics manifesto" was published. At last week's 2:AM conference in Amsterdam, the authors of that manifesto were brought together in person for the first time.