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Who/what/when/where/why is figshare? figshare allows researchers to publish all of their data in a citable, searchable and sharable manner. All data is persistently stored online under the most liberal Creative Commons licence, waiving copyright where possible. This allows scientists to access and share the information from anywhere in the world with minimal friction. The site offers upload times of mere seconds for all file formats, providing a citable, searchable endpoint for researchers. figshare offers unlimited storage space for data that is made publicly available on the site, and 1GB of free storage space for users looking for a secure, private area to store their research. Users of the site maintain full control over the management of their research whilst benefiting from global access, version control and secure backups in the cloud. figshare was started by a frustrated Imperial College PhD student as a way to disseminate all research outputs and not just static images through traditional academic publishing. It is now supported by Digital Science, a Macmillan Publishers company."

The Center for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University advocates the use of specific normalizations for assessing research performance with reference to a world average. The Journal Citation Score (JCS) and Field Citation Score (FCS) are averaged for the research group or individual researcher under study, and then these values are used as denominators of the (mean) Citations per publication (CPP). Thus, this normalization is based on dividing two averages. This procedure only generates a legitimate indicator in the case of underlying normal distributions. Given the skewed distributions under study, one should average the observed versus expected values which are to be divided first for each publication. We show the effects of the Leiden normalization for a recent evaluation where we happened to have access to the underlying data.

Hans Dillaerts. "The application of bibliometrics to research evaluation in the humanities and social sciences: an exploratory study using normalized Google Scholar data for the publications of a research institute", 3 mars 2016

27 octobre 2012. "Le registre international d'identifiants de chercheurs ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier) a été lancé opérationnellement la semaine dernière. Porté par le consortium ORCID, qui regroupe à ce jour 300 membres issus de 40 pays, ce registre normalisé et ouvert a pour ambition d'attribuer à chaque chercheur - et sous le contrôle de celui-ci - un identifiant unique et non ambigu. Des éditeurs scientifiques (Elsevier, The Nature Publishing Group, Thomson Reuters Science…), des organismes de recherche, des agences de financement ont été les premiers adhérents du consortium ORCID créé en 2010. Se situant à l'intersection de la problématique des métadonnées associées aux produits de la recherche et de la question toujours sensible des données personnelles nominatives, le registre ORCID est un projet majeur et transversal pour toutes les communautés de la recherche et ce au plan international."

A noter que l'on peut avoir simultanément un Researcher ID (Thomson) et un ORCID et que ces deux numéros sont mentionnés, le cas échéant, en regard du champ Auteur des notices bibliographiques du Web of Science. Il est en outre possible d'avoir deux profils disciplinaires différents sur l'un et/ou l'autre ID. Rappelons enfin que des notices Scopus sont associées directement à l'ORCID.

Expérience relevant typiquement de la scientométrie, à partir d'une analyse sémantique d'actes d'une série uniforme de colloques annuels (on Spatial Information Theory) sur la période 1992-2009. Permet de mesurer les tendances et l'évolution d'un corpus et donc d'un thème disciplinaire en analysant notamment l'écart topologique (ou "géographique") entre les concepts au fil des ans. Un repérage intelligent de la transversalité à travers un processus assez courant aujourd'hui, en permanente évolution. Auteur affiliés à l'Univ. Sta Barbara (Calif.)

Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management

... des outils de visualisation à oberser : Paper citation graph, co-author Graph, academic map,, organization comparaison...

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 456-465 D. Pontille, A. Séné, V. Prêtre, N. Pothier, A. Deniau, M. Durand-Barthez, F. Girard

Using the full-text corpus of more than 75,000 research articles published by seven PLOS journals, this paper proposes a natural language processing approach for identifying the function of citations.

Which are the most important papers in the history of a field? On whose shoulders of giants does an author stand? Where to look for the intellectual roots of a research topic? These questions can be answered by using the program CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer). The CRExplorer is a new software development which is based on the programs provided at Loet Leydesdorff's homepage.