Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann compared metrics from different sources in two studies published as preprints. But what different metrics actually tell us about the quality of research when compared to expert opinion?
Liz Allen recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Kent Business School – the subject was whether metrics or peer review are the best tools to support research assessment. In this post, she looks into what peer review actually tells us and how we use expert opinion.
I am delighted to have been selected to serve on the High-Level Advisory Group ‘Open Science Policy Platform’ (OSPP) at this important juncture in the EU’s vision on bringing open science to the way research across the EU is conducted and communicated. At the Dutch Presidency’s Open Science conference in Amsterdam in April, European Commissioner Carlos…
Original research articles with one author – particularly in the life sciences – are increasingly rare, and the concept of ‘authorship’ in science has become outdated. Adopting a simple taxonomy of terms to describe the contributions to a published work could enable a range of benefits to all the stakeholders in research – most particularly…
Earlier this week, Wiley announced that they have partnered with Altmetric to provide article-level metrics across all 1500+ Wiley journals. Now, any article published in a Wiley journal will have an Altmetric score (online) in order to help the reader paint a fuller picture of the impact of individual papers. An Altmetric score is a…
The most comprehensive analysis to date finds that F1000Prime-recommended articles receive more citations compared to other articles, and that a higher F1000Prime score is associated with higher numbers of citations. Assuming these findings stand the test of peer review, now is the time to focus on new questions about how we assess the impact and…
The F1000Prime Outreach team are scheduling more visits to, and presentations at, many academic and research institutions in 2014, and attending more conferences. Here are the dates, venues and presentation topics so far, including five talks over three days in Milan, Italy, next week. With a number of important new features being added to F1000Prime…
The Faculty of 1000 team had a great time attending the 2013 Charleston Conference. It was a pleasure to participate and meet lots of old and new faces at our vendor booth and cocktail hour. Iain H, our Outreach Director from London, flew over the pond to give two presentations. First, Iain talked about how…
A little while ago I was doing something that often gets pushed into that time in the festive season, between December 24 and January 2, when email is a bit quieter than usual. That is, I started writing a paper I’d been meaning to get to for a while. Coincidentally, my wife, a practicing clinician,…
Analysis of methods for research assessment, particularly in light of the huge public investment in the current Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 exercise, is welcome. A new study published in PLOS Biology aiming to assess different methods of post-publication assessment of research, including an analysis of F1000Prime data from 2005, raises important questions – possibly…
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