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Metrics – Alternatives to Altmetrics?

There has been a significant increase in focus on Altmetrics in the last 6–12 months, with services such as ImpactStory and Altmetric receiving much attention. It’s easy to forget that, while at least part of the reason for their emergence is a sense of dissatisfaction with the Impact Factor, there were already numerous alternatives to…

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Iain Craig By
Associate Director, Market Research & Analysis

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Societies Research

Does PR Impact Citations?

In 2004, Wiley Blackwell started a publicity program to promote our journal content to the public through article-level press releases. Our initial goal was to support the educational mission of our society partners, increase the visibility of their journals beyond academia, and disseminate news releases that would enable interested consumers tobenefit from scholarly research findings…

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Sharon Mathelus By
Marketing Manager, Health Sciences

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Star Metrics

STAR METRICS stands for ‘Science and Technology in America’s Reinvestment – Measuring the EffecTs of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science’, and is the result of collaboration between the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).  The project piloted in 2009…

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Jenny Neophytou By
Bibliometrics Analyst

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Metrics and User Habits – Understanding our Readers

Wiley is in the middle of two interesting projects aimed at understanding what our readers want, and how they interact with our content. As part of its online subject strategy for chemistry, the Online Channel Development (OCD) group in our Hoboken office worked with the Wiley-Blackwell Physical Sciences editorial group to identify the key workflows…

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Roy Opie By
Director, Global B2B Publishing, Physical Sciences

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Article Metrics and Discoverability

Impact Factor (IF) is the most widely accepted metric in the journal business. It attempts to measure a journal’s impact by analyzing how many times articles published in that journal are cited by subsequently published articles. Individual researchers’ success is judged partially by their record of being published in journals with high Impact Factors. In…

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Tim Ryan By
Director, Author Services

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New podcast, “Journal Metrics: The Impact Factor and Everything Else”, to Premiere at Online Conference

If you are a journal metrics expert, and can tell your IF from your SNIP from your Eigenfactor in the dark and blindfolded, then you can stop reading now.  If, however, you are like the rest of us mortals and just about managed to comprehend Impact Factors around the time that all these other measures…

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Vanessa Lafaye By
Publisher, Social Science & Humanities Online Editorial

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The Eigenfactor and Other Metrics – Plus Ça Change

At the beginning of February 2009, ISI’s Journal Citation Report (JCR) underwent a radical transformation. Alongside the standard journal level metrics such as Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, and Total Citations, three new metrics have been introduced: the five-year Impact Factor, the Eigenfactor and the Article Influence. In addition, users now have the ability to examine…

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Iain Craig By
Associate Director, Market Research & Analysis

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Why are some Journal Impact Factors Anomalous?

One of the consequences of the pareto-like distribution of citations amongst articles is that a small number of highly cited articles can exert an overwhelming effect on the Impact Factor. Large fluctuations in Impact Factor from year to year can often be explained by the inclusion of a small number of papers. However, what goes…

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Iain Craig By
Associate Director, Market Research & Analysis

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Downloads as a Value Metric

For many years, the scholarly community has turned to citations as the best and possibly the only way to objectively gauge the quality of research outputs. These are measurements or metrics. Indeed, a mini-industry has grown up around the best known citation measure, Eugene Garfield’s now iconic impact factor. The impact factor, and its sister…

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Bibliometrics – What can it do for you?

Did you know that the Impact Factor of most journals is derived from a small community of perhaps 10 to 20 authors? Did you know, too, that proactive lobbying of these authors to switch their allegiance from rival publications can give a significant boost to your journal’s Impact Factor? Bibliometrics is a powerful tool for…

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Iain Craig By
Associate Director, Market Research & Analysis

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