Metric Tide

On Measuring Social Science Impact: An Excerpt and Responses
Impact
May 12, 2022

On Measuring Social Science Impact: An Excerpt and Responses

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Book Review: Altmetrics – A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics
Bookshelf
November 9, 2016

Book Review: Altmetrics – A Practical Guide for Librarians, Researchers and Academics

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ResearchGate Score: Good Example of a Bad Metric
Higher Education Reform
December 11, 2015

ResearchGate Score: Good Example of a Bad Metric

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Getting All Bibliometric Efforts Onto the Same Page
Interdisciplinarity
December 4, 2015

Getting All Bibliometric Efforts Onto the Same Page

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Looking for Leiden: Let’s Make Use of ALL Available Metrics

Looking for Leiden: Let’s Make Use of ALL Available Metrics

The Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, has yet to achieve widespread institutional support in the UK. Maybe its reception might be warmed if DORA was more like its cousin, the Leiden Manifesto.

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Building Metrics That Help, Not Hurt, Science

Building Metrics That Help, Not Hurt, Science

Rather than expecting people to stop utilizing metrics altogether, we would be better off focusing on making sure the metrics are effective and accurate, argues Brett Buttliere.

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The Waves of the Metric Tide

The Waves of the Metric Tide

While the initial splash made by ‘The Metric Tide,’ an independent review on the role of metrics in research assessment, has died down since its release last month, the underlying critique continues to make waves.

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Even an Imperfect Metrics Regime Has Value

Even an Imperfect Metrics Regime Has Value

Jane Tinkler argues that if institutions like HEFCE specify a narrow set of impact metrics, more harm than good would come to universities forced to limit their understanding of how research is making a difference. But, she adds, qualitative and quantitative indicators continue to be an incredible source of learning for how impact works.

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Report: Metrics Not Mature Enough to Replace Peer Review

Report: Metrics Not Mature Enough to Replace Peer Review

A new report looking at the role of metrics in analyzing British academe finds, ‘A lot of the things we value most in academic culture resist simple quantification, and individual indicators can struggle to do justice to the richness and diversity of our research.’

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