Tag Archives: R
Everyday altmetrics
Show me the numbers A while ago I was contacted by an academic person from one of the Schools of Aalto University. They wanted to have a quick look on how their publications from last year had performed altmetrics-wise. We … Continue reading
Open landscape
In his recent blog posting Understanding the implications of Open Citations – how far along are we?, Aaron Tay from Singapore Management University gives a compact and clear overview on open citations. As Tay rightly notes, With the recent interest … Continue reading
OpenCitations Corpus
Citations are central to scientific communication. Despite increasing doubts in their very-old-school use in measuring impact, citations are still very much alive in that part of academia too. What is nice is that in OpenCitations Corpus (OCC) we have now … Continue reading
One year makes a (small) difference
Time goes by, publications get attention, metrics accrue. Or do they? To find out what happens locally in small scale and in a short time frame, in one year, I re-queried the Altmetric API and WoS for our items at … Continue reading
Policy sources and impact
Since some time already, Altmeric has harvested information on how much various policy and guidance documents have been citing research publications. The way they do it is mainly by text-mining the References section of PDF documents, and verifying results against … Continue reading
Email anatomy of a project
When a HE project runs more than few years, and when it keeps more people busy than just some, it generates a substantial amount of email. Of course, IM has been among us for quite some time, but it has … Continue reading
Making titles to match
Research and citations Since a few months now, the Aalto University CRIS back-end has served the research active personnel and other inclined staff. Since last week, the front-end site was opened to the public. One of the most interesting aspects … Continue reading
Towards more automation (and better quality)
Few weeks ago, CSC-IT Center for Science opened the much awaited VIRTA REST API for publications (page in Finnish). VIRTA is the Finnish higher education achievement register, a tool to be utilized in the authoritative data harvesting in the way … Continue reading
Mining REF2014 impact case studies
The British 2014 Research Excellence Framework is a landmark in recent European academic life, no matter from what angle you look at it. One of its novelties was Impact Case Studies, a collection of impressive 6,975 items which showcase how … Continue reading
Wikipedia outreach by field of science
Since the previous posting, the Scholarly Article Citation dataset on Figshare has been upgraded to include also DOIs. Great! I’d imagine that unlike with PMIDs, there’d be more coverage from Aalto with DOIs. Like in all altmetrics exercises so far, … Continue reading