Last December I was invited to give a talk at the SSHRC Leaders Annual Meeting about open access and the scholarly reward system. SSHRC Leaders are vice-presidents from all Canadian universities and form the board of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. You...
I am blogging about my forthcoming book chapter on scholarly Twitter metrics in a mini series on the Altmetric blog. The posts focus on the What, Where, How, When and Who of tweets linking to research publications and are published every Thursday. So far, the...
The Metrics Literacy project seeks to improve the way in which researchers and research support staff (e.g., research managers, research librarians, science communicators and funding organizations) can be trained to ensure that scholarly metrics are applied and interpreted appropriately. It aims to reduce misuse of...
I am working on creating 3D models of social network graphs of co-authorship, citation and Twitter diffusion networks to 3D print them. I will be using the 3D printers at the University of Ottawa Department of Visual Arts' Atelier coFab. To my knowledge, this would be the...
Twitter has arguably been the most popular among the data sources that form the basis of so-called altmetrics. Tweets to scholarly documents have been heralded as both early indicators of citations as well as measures of societal impact. This project provides an overview of Twitter...
More than 30 years after Cronin's seminal paper on "the need for a theory of citing" (Cronin, 1981), the metrics community is once again in need of a new theory, this time one for so-called "altmetrics". Altmetrics, short for alternative (to citation) metrics -- and...