Lizzie Gadd warns against jumping on ‘bad metrics’ bandwagons without really engaging with the more complex responsible metrics agenda beneath. An undoubted legacy of the Metric Tide report has been an increased focus on the responsible use of metrics and along with this a notion of ‘bad metrics’.  Indeed, the report itself even recommended awarding an annual ‘Bad Metrics Prize’.

In this blog post, The Bibliomagician pays a special tribute to one of the founding fathers of Bibliometrics: the late Dr Eugene Garfield. On February 26, 2017, the world of information and library science lost one of its true pioneers with the passing of Dr. Eugene Garfield at age 91. His innovations – most notably, the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) – transformed not only the indexing and retrieval of scholarly

In this post, distinguished Professor Henk Moed explains why he has published his recent book Applied Evaluative Informetrics , and outlines his critical views on a series of fundamental problems in the current use of research performance indicators in research assessment.

The tension between publishing strategically to enhance standing in current academic culture and increasing the openness of scholarly communications is one I see regularly. Lizzie Gadd’s My double life blog post articulating this tension resonated for many Bibliomagician readers.

Every year for the last three years I have ‘taken the temperature’ of the HE community regarding responsible metrics using a short survey.  The surveys have been advertised to the Lis-Bibliometrics Forum and the ARMA Metrics Special Interest Group. Back in 2015 I was keen to understand whether and how universities were responding to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

A few months ago I asked the lis-bibliometrics list how institutions that had purchased SciVal had rolled it out across their respective universities.  We have recently taken out a subscription to SciVal at my own institution (De Montfort University in Leicester, UK) and we are starting to think about the services and support we want to provide.

Welcome to the first Altmetrics Research Roundup! In these regular posts, I’ll be sharing and summarizing the altmetrics research that’s most relevant to practicing bibliometricians’ daily work.

…and when I say, read this, I don’t mean this blog post, I mean, this: Yves Gingras’s “Bibliometrics and Research Evaluation: uses and abuses” (2016, MIT Press). And here are my top 6 reasons why I heartily recommend this book to practitioners:- It’s short . I know this shouldn’t be one’s primary consideration when selecting a book.

ARMA Metrics Champion and Lis-Bibliometrics Committee Chair Elizabeth Gadd provides the following summary of the Metrics SIG session at this year’s ARMA Annual Conference. There are many stakeholders in the world of research evaluation by numbers, and the Metric Tide Report did a great job of teasing out who should be doing what. At the ARMA Conference this year, the Metrics Special Interest Group

Like most institutions, the release of the Metric Tide report in July 2015 came at a busy time for us. We were in the midst of a REF open access campaign, continuing our work to embed our CRIS (Pure) into institutional processes, and thinking about how to increase our research data management provisions without breaking the bank.

Kick starting the series of “In a day of a Bibliomagician” we focus on what it is like to be a Bibliometrician in Canada. Shannon Gordon who is a Bibliometrics and Reseach Impact Librarian at the University of Waterloo, shares with us her experience. Here is her interview. Shannon, t hank you very much for agreeing to be the first interviewee for this series.