Category Archives: Academic Reputation

DORA Top 10 for 2018; London OA Community Spreadsheet

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Stephanie Krueger

DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Advancement) has listed ten favorite advances made by the international research/researcher evaluation community for 2018. The London OA Community is attempting to make deciphering publisher open access (OA) policies easier, summarizing current problems in … Continue reading →

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Historians of Economic Thought Illustrate Problems of Journal Rankings for Small Fields

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

Alberto Baccini, Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, points out difficulties posed for smaller academic disciplines, using the example of three history of economic thought journals now excluded from Journal Citations Report (JCR): There are dozens of open … Continue reading →

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Evaluating RG Score in relation to the Leiden Manifesto

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Stephanie Krueger

Orduna-Malea, E., Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., &  López-Cózar, E.D. (2017) analyze ResearchGate (RG) Scores using a set of seventy-three Nobel Prize winners, also analyzing the RG Score in relation to the Leiden Manifesto for research metrics principles (Table 7). The … Continue reading →

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