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<p class=MsoNormal>Colleagues/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>An Important Article, But ... Not As Radical As I Would
Suggest ... [:-)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>See The Bottom Of This Posting For My View(s) / Links<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Neylon C, Wu S (2009) Article-Level Metrics and the
Evolution of Scientific Impact. PLoS Biol 7(11): e1000242.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000242 / Published: November 17, 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[snip]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>“‘Other Indicators of Impact’ include ratings and comments,
which, like page views, are immediate but may offer more insight because users
are more likely to have read the article and found it compelling enough to
respond. Additional other indicators are bookmarks, used by some people to keep
track of articles of interest to them, and blog posts and trackbacks, which
indicate where else on the Web the article has been mentioned and can be useful
for linking to a broader discussion. It is clear that all of the types of data
provide different dimensions, which together can give a clearer picture of an
article's impact.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[snip] As recently shown ... , scientific impact is not a
simple concept that can be described by a single number. The key point is that
journal impact factor is a very poor measure of article impact. And, obviously,
the fact that an article is highly influential by any measure does not
necessarily mean it should be.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Many researchers will continue to rely on journals as
filters, but the more you can incorporate effective filtering tools into your
research process, the more you will stay up-to-date with advancing knowledge.
The question is not whether you should take article-level metrics seriously but
how you can use them most effectively to assist your own research endeavours.
We need sophisticated metrics to ask sophisticated questions about different
aspects of scientific impact and we need further research into both the most
effective measurement techniques and the most effective uses of these in policy
and decision making. For this reason we strongly support efforts to collect and
present diverse types of article-level metrics without any initial presumptions
as to which metric is most valuable. [snip]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As Clay Shirky famously said ... , you can complain about
information overload but the only way to deal with it is to build and use
better filters. It is no longer sufficient to depend on journals as your only
filter; instead, it is time to start evaluating papers on their own merits. Our
only options are to publish less or to filter more effectively, and any response
that favours publishing less doesn't make sense, either logistically,
financially, or ethically. The issue is not how to stop people from publishing,
it is how to build better filters, both systematically and individually. At the
same time, we can use available tools, networks, and tools built on networks to
help with this task.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>So in the spirit of science, let's keep learning and
experimenting, and keep the practice and dissemination of science evolving for
the times.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> While These Insights and Suggestions Are An
Important Contribution To The Conversation , In Many Ways The Views And
Recommendations Are Far From Radical [:-)] <<<<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>See My Presentation Delivered At the _<i>Workshop On Peer
Review</i>_, Trieste, Italy, May 23-24 2003<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>"Alternative Peer Review: Quality Management for 21st
Century Scholarship" <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>> See In Particular > 'Seize The E!’ Section
>>> “Embrace the potential of the digital environment to facilitate
access, retrieval, use, _<i>and</i>_ navigation of electronic scholarship”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>>It's A Large PPT (200+ Slides) But IMHO ... Well
Worth The Experience [:-)]<<<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>AND<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Big Picture(sm): Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web
Databases<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To ReQuote T.S. Elloit ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where
is the knowledge that we have lost in information?"/ T.S. Eliot / The Rock
(1934) pt.1 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>To Quote Me ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>"It's Not About Publication, It's About Ideas"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>>> We Now Have The Computational Power To Make
Real-Time Conceptual Navigation An EveryDay Occurrence <<<<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Full Text Of Article / PPT / and Website Available At <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>[ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yzoeqg9">http://tinyurl.com/yzoeqg9</a>
]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>!! Let Us Use It To Navigate Ideas !!!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Indeed Let Us Continue "... experimenting, and keep the
practice and dissemination of science evolving for the times." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>EnJOY!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>/Gerry <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gerry McKiernan<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Science and Technology Librarian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Iowa State University Library<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Ames IA 50011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>gerrymck@iastate.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined
'Cyberspace<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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