This chronological table covers significant events in scholarly communication leading us to the discussion of 'altmetrics' today. It also serves as useful list of references. Please leave me a comment if you feel anything important is missing from this table.
11 Jan 2013: V.2 reuploaded
This document discusses the history and development of evidence-based information practice (EBIP). It traces early antecedents of EBIP principles in the work of librarians like John Shaw Billings and John Cotton Dana in the late 19th/early 20th century. It describes the observational research era beginning in the 1940s with cohort studies of journal usage. The experimental research era began in the late 1970s with randomized controlled trials introduced to health librarianship. The document outlines the growth of EBIP through organizations like the Medical Library Association Research Section and international conferences in the late 20th/early 21st century, establishing EBIP as a recognized approach.
The document provides a history of open access, beginning with the principles of openly sharing ideas and insights. It describes how the internet enabled open access by facilitating information sharing online. Key events that advanced open access as a principle include the 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative and statements in 2003 supporting open access. Governments and institutions, including the UK and Wellcome Trust, later implemented policies mandating open access to publicly funded research. The document traces the growth of open access publishing and repositories from 1993 to present. It outlines different routes to open access like gold and green and looks at developments in the US, Europe, and future of open access.
The document provides a history of open access, beginning with the principles of openly sharing ideas and insights. It describes how the internet enabled open access by facilitating information sharing online. Key events that advanced open access as a principle include the 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative and statements in 2003 supporting open access. Governments and institutions, including the UK and Wellcome Trust, later implemented policies mandating open access to publicly funded research. The document traces the growth of open access publishing and repositories from 1993 to present. It outlines different routes to open access like gold and green and looks at developments in the US, Europe, and future potential for open access to increase public access to research.
This document is an assignment submitted by L. Anjali Ajayan to Dr. Padmapriya P.V. on reference materials in science. It discusses encyclopedias, newsletters, magazines, and journals as important reference materials for students and researchers. It provides examples of popular encyclopedias, science newsletters, academic journals, and Indian science magazines that are useful references. The conclusion emphasizes that reference materials are important for developing scientific understanding and supporting investigations in various fields of science.
This document analyzes the 126 most frequently cited articles on adsorption published between 1900 and 2011. It finds that these articles have been cited an average of 1014 times each. The majority (80%) of these top cited articles were published after 1970. The articles were published across 55 journals, with the Journal of the American Chemical Society publishing the most. The top cited countries were the United States, comprising over half of the articles. The document analyzes characteristics such as publication year trends, citing journals, citing authors and institutions to understand the impact and influence of highly cited papers in the field of adsorption research.
This document summarizes a presentation on research ethics and scientific publication. It discusses author responsibilities including submitting original work and obtaining proper permissions. It defines plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other ethical violations. It provides examples of plagiarized papers that were retracted from journals. It discusses how journals detect problems, handle ethical violations, and work to uphold integrity. It emphasizes sharing knowledge through peer-reviewed publication and the importance of ethical conduct in research.
This document discusses the history and development of evidence-based information practice (EBIP). It traces early antecedents of EBIP principles in the work of librarians like John Shaw Billings and John Cotton Dana in the late 19th/early 20th century. It describes the observational research era beginning in the 1940s with cohort studies of journal usage. The experimental research era began in the late 1970s with randomized controlled trials introduced to health librarianship. The document outlines the growth of EBIP through organizations like the Medical Library Association Research Section and international conferences in the late 20th/early 21st century, establishing EBIP as a recognized approach.
The document provides a history of open access, beginning with the principles of openly sharing ideas and insights. It describes how the internet enabled open access by facilitating information sharing online. Key events that advanced open access as a principle include the 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative and statements in 2003 supporting open access. Governments and institutions, including the UK and Wellcome Trust, later implemented policies mandating open access to publicly funded research. The document traces the growth of open access publishing and repositories from 1993 to present. It outlines different routes to open access like gold and green and looks at developments in the US, Europe, and future of open access.
The document provides a history of open access, beginning with the principles of openly sharing ideas and insights. It describes how the internet enabled open access by facilitating information sharing online. Key events that advanced open access as a principle include the 2001 Budapest Open Access Initiative and statements in 2003 supporting open access. Governments and institutions, including the UK and Wellcome Trust, later implemented policies mandating open access to publicly funded research. The document traces the growth of open access publishing and repositories from 1993 to present. It outlines different routes to open access like gold and green and looks at developments in the US, Europe, and future potential for open access to increase public access to research.
This document is an assignment submitted by L. Anjali Ajayan to Dr. Padmapriya P.V. on reference materials in science. It discusses encyclopedias, newsletters, magazines, and journals as important reference materials for students and researchers. It provides examples of popular encyclopedias, science newsletters, academic journals, and Indian science magazines that are useful references. The conclusion emphasizes that reference materials are important for developing scientific understanding and supporting investigations in various fields of science.
This document analyzes the 126 most frequently cited articles on adsorption published between 1900 and 2011. It finds that these articles have been cited an average of 1014 times each. The majority (80%) of these top cited articles were published after 1970. The articles were published across 55 journals, with the Journal of the American Chemical Society publishing the most. The top cited countries were the United States, comprising over half of the articles. The document analyzes characteristics such as publication year trends, citing journals, citing authors and institutions to understand the impact and influence of highly cited papers in the field of adsorption research.
This document summarizes a presentation on research ethics and scientific publication. It discusses author responsibilities including submitting original work and obtaining proper permissions. It defines plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other ethical violations. It provides examples of plagiarized papers that were retracted from journals. It discusses how journals detect problems, handle ethical violations, and work to uphold integrity. It emphasizes sharing knowledge through peer-reviewed publication and the importance of ethical conduct in research.
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Presented at “Gaining the momentum: Open Access and advancement of science and research” workshop, African Digital Scholarship & Curation 2009, Thursday 14 May 2009, CSIR Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. About enlarged audience and citation impact, tenure and promotion. Advanced and enhanced metrics. The evidences that Open Access leads to advancement of science and research.
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This document provides an overview of scholarly communication and open access in India, with an emphasis on scientific literature. It discusses the global and collaborative nature of science, and how scholarly communication has traditionally occurred through journals. It notes the growth in the number of scientists and journals over time. The document then examines science in India and the concept of open access, including its evolution and examples of open access initiatives in India, such as open access journals, repositories, and policies. It concludes with recommendations to further promote open access in India.
This document summarizes research being conducted at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. It features three young researchers at the Queen's Cancer Research Institute who are approaching cancer research in different but interconnected ways. It also profiles several other Queen's researchers studying topics like Renaissance imagery, international criminal law, and risk analysis. The document emphasizes that younger generations of scholars are leading innovation in fields like digital scholarship and data-driven research.
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This document provides an overview of using the Web of Science database to analyze scientific research through several case studies. It introduces Web of Science and the types of information it contains. It then describes three cases:
1) Analyzing the co-author network and trajectory of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Ryoji Noyori through bibliometric analysis.
2) Identifying the two most influential papers for Nobel Prize winner Dr. Satoshi Omura and analyzing their citation counts over time and citing organizations.
3) Tracing the knowledge flow that led to the creation of efficient blue LEDs through patent and paper citation analysis, identifying the most influential publications in each decade.
Scientific databases and repositories play an important role in the scientific community by organizing and providing access to scientific information. There are several types of scientific databases that focus on different subject areas or provide different types of access, including Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and others. Repositories store and provide access to research outputs, teaching materials, theses/dissertations, and other content. They benefit researchers through increased visibility and impact of publications, and benefit institutions by increasing prestige and supporting teaching/learning. Aggregators facilitate access to content from multiple publishers and databases through hosting, gateway, and full-text services, helping libraries provide access.
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The document discusses open access (OA), which refers to free online availability of peer-reviewed literature that allows users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to full text articles. It outlines the benefits of OA such as increased citation rates and access, as well as potential cost savings of OA publishing models. Next steps mentioned include encouraging researchers, managers, and libraries to support OA through various policies, repositories, and outreach.
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Forms part of a training course in ontology given in Buffalo in 2009. For details and accompanying video see http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/IntroOntology_Course.html
This document provides information about reviewing literature for research. It defines a literature review as a written summary of past and current research on a topic. The purpose of a literature review is to define the research problem, avoid duplication, understand methodology, and identify gaps to position new research. It discusses primary sources like research articles and secondary sources like reviews. It also outlines various reference materials that can be used in a literature review like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, yearbooks, directories, and indexes.
The United States has a rich history of supporting open access to research. Some of the earliest open access projects include ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, and MEDLINE. Major current open access initiatives in the US include arXiv, an open access archive launched in 1991 that covers many fields of science; the Internet Archive, launched in 1996 to provide open access to web archives and collections; and PLoS, an open access publisher launched in response to the lack of open access from traditional publishers. Many US universities have also adopted open access policies or resolutions.
The United States has a rich history of supporting open access to research. Some of the earliest open access projects include ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, and MEDLINE. Major current open access initiatives in the US include arXiv, an open access archive launched in 1991 that covers many fields of science; the Internet Archive, launched in 1996 to provide open access to web archives and collections; and PLoS, an open access publisher launched in response to the lack of open access from traditional publishers. Many US universities have also adopted open access policies or resolutions.
The document discusses institutional repositories and open access initiatives. It provides definitions and descriptions of institutional repositories, their benefits, challenges in setting them up, stakeholders involved, types of content and services they can offer. It also discusses enabling technologies for institutional repositories, including open source software like DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, Greenstone and proprietary options like Archimede and CDSware.
This document summarizes an academic publishing event discussing various topics related to scholarly communication and open access publishing. The program included discussions on peer review and research ethics, the transition from research to publishing, and editorial roles within journals. It provided an overview of MDPI as one of the earliest open access publishers, establishing their first journal in 1996. Currently, MDPI publishes 146 peer-reviewed journals across many scientific disciplines and has over 10,000 papers published annually with an international network of editors and authors.
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Open access advocates for making research output widely available through open access repositories and policies. It highlights evidence that open access accelerates the research cycle by allowing more rapid discovery and uptake of findings. Open access repositories provide access to peer-reviewed articles, theses, reports and other materials. They help increase the visibility, usage and impact of research.
The document discusses the impact factor (IF), which is used to measure the importance of academic journals. It provides details on how the IF is calculated based on the number of citations over a certain period. While the IF has become influential in research, it also faces criticisms. The document aims to explain the IF to help young academics understand and apply it appropriately when publishing their work.
This document analyzes highly cited articles (HCAs) published in top library and information science journals to identify patterns of authorship, collaboration, and impactful areas of research. The authors examined HCAs using bibliometric indicators and content analysis. They found that the Netherlands produced the most authors, Loet Leydesdorff was the most prolific individual author, and emerging topics included research impact measurement, social networking, and research metrics/citation studies. Lotka's law of scientific productivity was also found to fit the dataset of HCAs in the library and information science field.
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This document provides an overview and summary of the Web of Science database. It discusses that Web of Science is a platform consisting of literature search databases designed to support scientific research. It was envisioned by Eugene Garfield in the 1960s to connect scientists and scholars globally across disciplines. The document outlines the scope and impact of Web of Science, including that it indexes over 20,000 peer-reviewed journals. It also summarizes the specific databases subscribed to by the AUI Library, including the Web of Science Core Collection, MEDLINE, and SciELO Citation Index. Finally, it briefly describes some of the analysis and metric tools available through Web of Science, such as citation mapping and InCites journal metrics.
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Why ’altmetrics’ now?: shown in a chronological table (1665-2012)
1. This chronological table covers significant events in scholarly communication leading us to the discussion of 'altmetrics' today. It also serves as useful list of
references.
Metrics
Online Publishing
Research Evaluation
Bibliographic database (become synomical to citation indexes after the launch of Web of Science in 2000)
Year Month Metrics Event Note
The world's first scholarly journal(s) was published: Philosophical Transactions (UK)/ Journal de
1665
Scavans (France).
1927 Gross & Gross conducted citation analysis and create a ranking list for important chemistry journals.
1955 10 Eugene Garfield developed Science Citation Index and launched Institute for Scientific Information.
Japan Information Centre of Science and Technology was established under the Science and
1957 Technology Agency. The aim was to collect and classify science and technology information that was
calculating fast, and to efficiently provide the information to users when needed.
1963 ISI published the first Science Citation Index on 1961 data.
1965 7 Price proposed the idea to evaluate research based on bibliographical information.
1969 Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES), a citation index for physics, was developed.
1971 Medline, a literature database for Medicines, was published in the US.
1975 Impact Factor
The first Journal Citation Report was published from ISI, which enable the calculation of Impact Factor.
1976 10 JOIS-I, online information search engine was developed and published in Japan.
American Psychological Association decided to move some of the contents of PsycINFO to digital form
1978
only, which created large amount of backlogs that took a long time for them to resolve. 10,000 records
were included by 1995. (PsychINFO is an abstract database published since 1967).
1986 Research Assessment Exercise was rolled out in the UK.
Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) developed a digital platform to archive
1991 8
preprint research papers in Physics (xxx.lanl.govga). It was renamed as arXiv.org in 1999.
2. Kitasato University in Japan started to measure their researchers' productivity based on Impact Factor
↓Misuse of Impact
1993 of the journals their articles were published in, and used the information for allocating research
Factor
budget.
S. Yamazaki published an article 'Research activities in life sciences in Japan' ranking Japanese
1994 2
universities vased on produced article per head in 1989.
Faculties of the School of Science at Nagoya University in Japan were required to submit a list of
1994
articles published since 1980 and cited more than 10 times.
1995 Highwire Press was launched and started to provide publishers the platform for online publishing.
↓Online publishing
1995 Andrew W. Mellon launched JSTOR. Served as digital library for academic literatures from 1997.
PubMed, free literature database based on Medline, was launched. PubMed is maintained by United
1996 1
States National Library of Medicine at はNational Institutes of Health.
Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, developed the link analysis algorithm, PageRank. It set the
1996 3 PageRank
principal that the more linked (referred) is the more important.
1996 Atypon, online publishing platform, was launched.
Academic Press launched a commercial online publishing platform for journals: The International
1997
Digital Electronic Access Library (IDEAL).
CiteSeer, a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers was developed
1997
and made available. It was replaced with CiteSeerX in 2008.
Garfield warned about the "misuse in evaluating individuals" because there is "a wide variation from
1998 6
article to article within a single journal. ↓Online usage of journal
1998 12 Elsevier released Science Direct, an online collections of published scientific research. articles
1998 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) launched Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources ↓Open Access
1999 10 Science published an essay criticising Impact Factor by Georg Franck.
Japan's databases for medical research articles, 'Ichushi Web' and 'Ichushi Personal Web', were
2000 4
released.
Reed Elsevier purchased Harcourt General. Following this, Elsevier started to sell IDEAL of Academic
2000 10
Press.
2000 Web of Science, a web version of Citation Index, was released for sale.
CrossRef, an official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI
2000
Foundation, was launched.
2001 7 arXive.org moved to Cornell University from LANL with its founder, Paul Ginsparg.
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), a public statement of principles relating to open access to the
2001 12
research literature was stated.
3. 2001 EBSCO launched MetaPress, a publishing platform.
Faculty of 1000 launched F1000 Prime. It identifies and recommends the most important articles in
2002 F1000 Prime ↓Post peer-review
biology and medical research publications.
Seisaku Kagaku Kenkyujo, now National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, published a report
2003 3 on the comprehensive evaluation of the state of science and technology policy of the Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science in Japan.
2003 4 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
A statement, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities,
2003 10
emerged from a conference on open access hosted in Berlin by the Max Planck Society.
The world's first university ranking, Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as Shanghai
2003 Ranking, was compiled and published by the Shanghai Jiaotong University published. The ranking bases
on the data provided by ISI (now Thomson Reuters).
Japan mandated all universities (both private and national) to conduct certified evaluation to their
2004 4 faculties accreditation. This however did not include research achievements for Institutional Certified
Evaluation and Accreditation.
↓Searching for new
S. Harnad and T. Brody published an article suggestion the correlation between usage and citations for
2004 6 metrics other than
articles published in Open Access model.
citation based metrics
2004 9 Thomas V Perneger published an article suggesting new metrics based on article usage.
2004 11 Beta version of Google Scholar went live.
2004 12 Nature developed Connotea, a social bookmarking system.
2005 4 CiNii, a scholarly and academic information navigator, was launched in Japan.
Jorge E. Hirsch proposed a new metrics, h-index. The index attempts to measure both the productivity
2005 9 h-index
and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar.
"Guidelines for Assessment of Research and Development in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
2005 9 Science (revised draft)" was released in Japan. It used quantitative metrics for objective scientific
evaluation, but noted that the use of such data should be done with care.
2005 11 Elsevier started to sell SCOPUS. The product was developed in 2004.
Leo Egghe suggested a metrics called g-index that attempt to quantify scientific productivity based on
2006 1 g-index
publication record.
2006 1 J. Bollen, M. A. Rodriguez, H. Van de Sompel published journal ranking using PageRank algorithm.
4. 2006 2 Bibliographic search engine, JDreamII, was released in Japan.
↓ Standardising 'hit
2006 3 Usage COUNTER project released first Code of Practice.
counts'
Windows released Live Search Academic, a search engine for academic literatures. This service was
2006 4
ceased in May, 2008.
2006 7 Twitter launched
Publish or
2006 10 Ann-Wil Harzing developed a software, Publish or Perish, using Google Scholar's citation data.
Perish (PoP)
2006 12 PLoS ONE launched.
2006 Google incorporated citation counts on Google Scholar, in response to Live Search Academic.
BMJ published featured articles discussing pros and cons of Impact Factor: Finding your way around
2007 3
Impact Factor
2007 3 EBSCO and American Economic Association digitally published ECONLIT with full text.
Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West developed the Eigenfactor, which rate journals according to the
2007 5 Eigenfactor number of incoming citations, with citations from highly ranked journals weighted to make a larger
contribution to the Eigenfactor than those from poorly ranked journals.
2007 8 Google Scholar started a program to digitize and host journal articles in agreement with publishers.
2008 4 National University Corporation Evaluation became mandatory in Japan.
Taraborelli, D published an article seeking for ways social bookmarking may contribute to scientific
2008 5
evaluations: 'Soft peer review: social software and distributed scientific evaluation' ↓ Social media metrics
Journal of Medical Internet Research started to collect, record, and display tweets mentioning the
2008 7
journal's articles.
Mendeley started to provide free online reference management system. Mendeley itself was
2008 8
established in 2007.
2008 9 Academia.edu, a social service for researchers to share their articles, was launched.
SCImago
SCImago Journal & Country Rank was released. Developed from Google PageRank, this indicator shows
2008 Journal &
the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.
Country Rank
JCR started to also list immediacy index, cited-half life, Eigenfactor along with Impact Factor for each
2009 1
journal. 1
5. Article Level
2009 3 Metrics/ Article PLoS inaugurated a program to provide "article-level metrics" on every article across all journals.
Usage
2009 3 Thomson Reuters launched InCite, a commercial analysis tool for research evaluation.
2009 3 e-index Chun-Ting Zhang developed e-index to complement h-index for excess citations.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) project was launched to resolve author name ambiguity
2009 12
issue. Various members of the research community including publishers, societies.
2009 Elsevier introduced SciVal Spotlight and SciVal Funding, performance planning and funding solutions.
Cornell University Library introduced a voluntary, collaborative business model to support arXiv.org,
2010 2 where the 200 institutions that download most from the repository were asked to make annual
contributions to help fund it.
"altmetrics: a manifesto" was posted on altmetrics.org. Altmetrics aims to measure Web-driven
2010 10 Altmetrics
scholarly interactions, such as how often research is tweeted, blogged about, or bookmarked.
Total-impact, a project to make the impact of a wide range of research output including Facebook likes
2011 10
and tweets digitally visible was launched.
Andrea Michalek and Mike Buschman established Plum Analytics to help make research more
2011
assessable and accessible.
Peter Binfield left PLoS ONE to found Peer J, an Open Access journal founded by author membership
2012 5
fee.
Total-impact became ImpactStory with financial support from Sloan Foundation. ImpactStory is a free
2012 9
web app that gathers and display Altmetrics data of the specified article/dataset or alike.
Thomson Reuters announced that integration of the ORCID Registry across its Scientific Literature
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Ecosystem.
2012 10 IOP Publishing (IOP) made article level metrics available on 36 journals on IOPscience.
Nature intoroduced Article level metrics on twenty journals on nature.com. Article level metrics are
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available on research articles published since 2011 and are openly accessible to all.
PLOS One and altmetrics.org announced the launch of 'Altmetrics Collection' a forum to gather an
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emerging body of research for the further study and use of Altmetrics.
6. Thomson Reuters announced that InCites will become the main environment for all Thomson Reuters
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analytic functionality related to scientific literature.
eLife, new online only Open Access journal published its first issue. As 'Metrics', total views as well as
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Public Impact (Facebook and Tweets, data provided by ImpactStory) are displayed for each article.