Bibliometrics Group Online meeting Notes

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Notes on first Bibliometrics Group Online Meeting

January 31, 2011

Attendees:

Andrew White  (SUNY Stony Brook)

Luti Salisbury  (University of Arkansas)

Steve Hansen  (ACS)

Drivers for focusing on bibliometrics

• ACS
  
  • Satisfying customer expectations
    
  • Understand emerging measurements of value/impact
    
• Customers
  
  • Receiving metrics to match internal value proposition, justify expenditures and $ allocation
    
  • Content evaluation and prioritization
    

Steps to identify/report out

• What metrics are used to measure value?
  
  • Differences by sector? (Academic, Government/Not-for-Profit, Corporate)
    
  • ARL vs. 4-year college?
    
• What metrics are libraries using to run their business?  (broad question – likely more than publisher data)
  
• What other ways are metrics (publisher data) used?
  

Organizing Principle – analyze bibliometrcis through the lens of

• The value of a particular article to a particular scientist
  
• Citations and library metrics (Impact Factor and Citation counts for example) – how does this address new journals?
  
• Publisher needs – supporting the publisher’s business i.e. business models
  

Challenges - Andrew

• Identify the problems with usage as a metric (current COUNTER)
  
• Demographics as a missing factor in evaluation – who used what where and why.  How might this impact decisions on acquisitions?  On library resources?  On further actions or outreach?
  
• Challenges with currently accepted value measures – Impact Factor, etc.
  

Emerging trends – what are the bibliometrics of the future?  Steve

Books  (not assigned)

• What are the meaningful metrics for books?  How do these relate to periodicals?  What existing or emerging bibliometrics support resource allocation decisions between the two publication formats?
  

Technology – Sushi?  Other?  (not assigned)

Competitive Analysis – best practices on providing bibliometrics  Luti

• Nature’s rate your article approach, etc.