Am 27.10. führte ich für die HAW Hamburg einen Online Workshop Wissenschaftliches Publizieren – Qualitätssicherung, Review und Impact-Messung durch. Hier auch die Kurzbeschreibung zum Workshop: Workshop Wissenschaftliches Publizieren – Qualitätssicherung, Review und Impact-Messung „Publish or perish – Wer nicht veröffentlicht, wird keine Karriere machen. Trotz dieser existentiellen Bedeutung des Publizierens basiert das Wissen vieler Wissenschaftler*innen, […]
Google Scholar releases its Scholar Metrics 2019
Google Scholar released its journal ranking, the Scholar Metrics 2019. The new ranking can be found here. It includes journals that follow Google’s inclusion guidelines and some conferences in Engineering & Computer Science. Journals that published very few articles in 2014-2018 or that received no citations over these years are excluded from the ranking. Google […]
Updated list of highly cited open-access journals
Yesterday the National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE (Germany) published an updated list of of frequently cited open-access journals. The list comprises 800 Open Access journals; it is based on data from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) that is enriched with SNIP-Scores (Source Normalized Impact per Paper). SNIP relies on citation information from […]
ReseachGate is granted a patent for (semantic) citation analysis
The Library Journal two days ago informed about an interesting patent granted to the Social Network ResearchGate: „ResearchGate Granted U.S. Patent 10,282,424: ‚Linking Documents Using Citations‘„. The abstract describes the patent as follows… „Aspects of the present disclosure relate to linking documents using citations. A server accesses a stored document in a data repository. The […]
Use and Usefulness of bibliometric and scientometric Data for Knowledge Management
On 11.05.2019 I will give a visiting lecture at the department of Information Science of the Fachhochschule Graubünden (University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons/ Switzerland) on the use and usefulness of bibliometric and scientometric data for knowledge management. The focus is not only on classical citation data, but also on altmetrics and data from […]