Who’s afraid of open infrastructures?
Joanna Ball, Yvonne Campfens and Tasha Mellins-Cohen underline the importance of non-profit infrastructure and standards bodies
Metrics
CIHR chooses Digital Science to support health discovery in Canada
Agency signs single-year deal to utilise Altmetric Explorer for Institutions and Dimensions Analytics
COUNTER: more than just subscription metrics
Twenty years after its launch, the latest update to the COUNTER Code of Practice is about to go live
COUNTER announces community consultation
First released in 2017, Release 5 of the COUNTER Code of Practice (CoP) incorporates the concept of continuous maintenance
The challenge of measuring scholarly communication
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
The future of evaluative metrics
Gali Halevi discusses the impact of new publishing outlets and formats
Citations are more than just a number
Citations are much more than just a number or a metric used to price journal subscriptions or APCs, writes Josh Nicholson
Journal Citation Reports 2021 published by Clarivate
Report covers 20,000 journals from 113 countries across five continents and 254 research categories
New metric ‘leverages opinions of 8,000 experts’
Faculty Opinions Score designed to be an early indicator of an article’s future impact
Measuring the impact of OA content
Measuring the impact of open access agreements is critical for developing sustainable business models, writes Tim Lloyd
Covid, climate and racism papers dominate Altmetric Top 100
Covid-19 research papers account for around 30 per cent of the Altmetric Top 100 list, released today (20 January)
Making decisions with confidence: the importance of editorial integrity
Nandita Quaderi, editor-in-chief of the Web of Science at Clarivate, explains what editorial integrity means for citation data and journal evaluation