Blogs selected for Week Aug 15 to Aug 21, 2016
1. Curation Nation: Thoughts on the Future of Textbooks Is there a role for a curated, remixing approach to developing next generation textbooks. In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Robert Harington investigates the role of curated open textbooks in teaching today’s students, looking at some of the available tools, the way in which […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Aug 8 to Aug 14, 2016
1. How to Manipulate a Citation Histogram Citation indexes need to provide standardised citation histograms for editors and publishers. Without them, it is unlikely that they will be widely adopted. At worse, it will encourage the production of histograms that selectively highlight or obscure the data, notes Phil Davis, in his post in the Scholarly […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Aug 1 to Aug 7, 2016
1. Nuts and Bolts: The Super Long List of Things to Do When Starting a New Journal Launching a new journal is a lot of work. In her post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Angela Cochran looks at the basic “to do” list of logistical details that need to be done to successfully launch a […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Jul 25 to Jul 31, 2016
1. The uneven impacts of research impact: Adjustments needed to address the imbalance of the current impact framework. The current approach to measuring and assessing research impact favours certain kinds of academics and research topics over others. In their post in The Impact Blog, Kat Smith and Ellen Stewart outline three areas that require further […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Jul 18 to Jul 24, 2016
1. Optical Illusions – Shifting to Citation Distributions Only Makes It Easier to Fool the Eye A proposal to substitute graphs of citation distributions for impact factors introduces many problems the authors don’t seem to have fully grasped, including unintentionally bolstering the importance of the very metric they seek to diminish. The recent proposal from […]
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