Monday, April 23, 2012

UKSG Annual Conference 2012 Proceedings

I have attended this year's UKSG Annual Conference held in Glasgow, Scotland (26-28 March 2012). 

The proceedings videos are now available from the Youtube Channel

Read the reports from http://uksglive.blogspot.com/


With Alan Hopkinson and Dr. Sanjay Kataria during UKSG, Glasgow



Monday, April 16, 2012

Google Scholar Metrics

Introduced on 1 April 2012 and are based on the Google Scholar database, which includes more journals and other publications than that used for the IFs. They are based on the h-index, which is defined on the Google Scholar Metrics page.


Google creates a list of all the articles a journal has published in a specified period of time. The citations to each article are counted in order to determine the publication's h-index, which is the largest number "h" such that each of the set of "h" articles were cited "h" or more times. As an example of how the h-index is calculated, consider a publication that has had six total articles having 2, 18, 11, 3, 22, and 9 citations, respectively. This gives the journal an h-index of four. Articles meeting the h-index criterion constitute the h-core. In the example, the core is the articles with 18, 11, 22 and 9 citations. Within the h-core, the median of the citation counts is used to assess the typical influence among the most highly cited set and is reported as the h-median. In the example, the h-median is 14.5. Read more from here