Google Metrics

Google Scholar has created its own h-index for scientist in Google Citations. And now they have also created an h-index for journals an journalarticles in Google Metrics. It is like the Journal Impact Factor from the Tomson Reuters database Journal Citation Reports. The Journal Impact Factor is calculated from the number of citations to items published in the previous 2 years divided by the number of articles and reviews published in the same 2 years. Thus de Journal Impact Factor of Nature is 36.04 In the new Google Metrics h-index of the journals is calculated over the last 5 years and stands for the largest number h such that at least h articles in that publication were cited at least h times each. For the period 2007-2011 the h-index of the journal Nature is 295 (295 articles are cited at least 295 times. Unlike the Journal Impact Factor Google metrics counts all articles. The top ten journals:

Google Metrics	#	Journal Impact Factor	#
Nature	295	CA-CANCER J CLIN	94.333
New Engl J Med	274	ACTA CRYSTALLOGR A	54.333
Science	265	NEW ENGL J MED	53.486
RePEc	259	REV MOD PHYS	51.695
arXiv	256	ANNU REV IMMUNOL	49.271
The Lancet	205	NAT REV MOL CELL BIO	38.650
Scoc Sc Res Netw	205	NAT REV CANCER	37.184
Cell	195	NAT GENET	36.377
PNAS	189	NATURE	36.104
Nature Genetics	174	NAT REV IMMUNOL	35.196

Search Publicatons: A search for "Ecology" gives a list of journal titles who have the word 'ecology'in the title.

Search Scholar: Search in Google Scholar for articles or other publications.

Scientist vs Elsevier

In January a British mathematician, Tom Gowers, started a protest movement against the raise of journal prices and about the support from the scientific publishers to some US law proposal to restrict the free flow of information. SOPA and PIPA law proposals are so-called 'anti piracy' legislation that give the possibility to close down websites after some protest (the protest of illegal practices). The RWA act stands for the prohibition of open access (esp. as mandated by NIH).
This protest resulted in a petition called The cost of knowledge. In this petition scientist declare that they will not publish in Elsevier's journals anymore unless they change their way of working.
Read the story in Science magazine, the Guardian or follow the links on the Journal Publishing Reform Wiki.
In The Chronicle a response by an Elsevier official is published. She says that Elsevier "improves access rather than impeding it" and the support of the RWA act is to secure investments. Jani Kotakoski also published an answer from Elsevier on his blog.

Later added on Friday Feb. 10:
Elsevier's answers:
"A message to the research community: journal prices, discounts and access"
"A message to the research community: elsevier, access, and the Research Works Act"

Also Springer (not an AAP publisher that supports RWA) has given a statement.
The blog Open and Shut from Richard Poynder gives a good overview of the position of the several players like the publishers from Nature and Science, Biomed Central and Wiley.

Later added on March 1, 2012:
Elseviers retracts support for RWA, in an open statement.And they have published a 'Letter to the Mathematical Community'.

Book Citation Index

Last week I attended a webinar about the new Web of Science feature: the Book Citation Index.
Until now in Web of Science there are only encorporated journal articles from a selected collection of scientific journals.
With the Book Citation Index a selection of scientific books will be added.
read the information on the BCI on the WOKINFO-site from Thomson Reuters. There you can also check out the book list. There are some nice titles on ecology like Elsevier's Advances in Ecological Researchs and Springer's Wetlands Ecology Conservation and Management.

The webinar learned me that the citations are either for the complete book, or for a seperate chapter. So that you will have to count twice to get all the citations. Also there seems to be a problem with the statements of the documenttype, as chapters have 2 document types: article and book sections. No doubt that will cause problems with export to Endnote.
The emphasis is still on ooks from the humanities.
A quick check with Surfdiensten told me that a subscription will be rather expensive (>10K).

Google Scholar Citations

Google has openend up his Scholar Citations for all to use.
Google Scholar Citations are"a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time".
First: you need to have a Google Account.
Once you have a Google Account, click on More in the black menu bar and choose SCHOLAR.
Be sure to choose the English version of Google Scholar. Click on Google Scholar Citations open to all and follow the link to Click here and follow the instructions to get started.


Second: you need to make a Google Scholar Citations Profile.

Here’s how it works. You can quickly identify which articles are yours, by selecting one or more groups of articles that are computed statistically. Then, we collect citations to your articles, graph them over time, and compute your citation metrics - the widely used h-index; the i-10 index, which is simply the number of articles with at least ten citations; and, of course, the total number of citations to your articles. Each metric is computed over all citations and also over citations in articles published in the last five years.Your citation metrics will update automatically as we find new citations to your articles on the web.
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As one would expect, you can search for profiles of colleagues, co-authors, or other researchers using their name, affiliation, or areas of interest...

Valorisation of science

One of the discussions in the scientific policy world in The Netherlands today is the question of 'valorisation'. What is the value of science.

The Young Academy (from the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW) organised a 'valorisation pararade' together with Rathenau institute on november 1, 2011.

The report of the the valorisation parade is published in Dutch on the Rathenau website with the title " Valorisation: with your sceintific research in the Donald Duck".

The Rathenau institute published a report on Valorisation Indicators (in Dutch) : Waardevol.

The Young Academy has - previously -made a video on valorisation, which can also been watch with English subtitles.

Thomson Reuters has released version 5 of Web of Knowledge. We mainly use Web of Science as part of Web of Knowledge. Because there were still some technical errors we remained a little longer on the Web of Science version 4.
On September 21, Rachel Mangan from Customer Education at Thomson Reuters will come to NIOO te present Web of Knowledge version 5.

Selected New features of version 5 are:
- the new look (silver)
- the new way the 'machine'behind the database works
- the anywhere, anytime access (remote access via your own login account, also mobile and on non network computers)
- the lemmatization which allows variations in spelling
- the new search possibilities (ResearcherID and on DOI)

Check out all the new features.
And be sure to (re)activate or register for an account via our Web of Science NIOO network connection.
Then you will have access to Web of Science from any computer for the next 2 years (...and with a personal account you can save your searches, use EndnoteWeb and ReseacherID).

Some remarks:
- if you want to find the differences between searching with of without lemmatization use quotations marks to search for 'lemmatization off'.
In the Search screen search for example for
microorganisms
NOT
"microorganisms"
Adn you will find the records that will be added by your result if you search with lemmatization on.

- if you use IE 9 enter the database URL in the Compatibility View Setting, both webofknowledgev4.com and webofknowledge.com

Endnote X5

The newest version has been released: Endnote X5 (15).

Please read in the official annoucement what is new in Endnote X5.

The most important change is the new "PDF & Quick Edit" Tab.
This tab, next to the Preview and Search Tab in the bottom navigation pane, gives you a preview of the opdf of the selected record and the possibility to quickly edit the record.


With Endnote X5 it is possible to transfer attached pdfs from your desktop to your Endnote Web and viceversa. of course the storage on the web is limited, now up to 1GB.

Thomson Reuters has adapted a new policy for remote access. Once you have established your EndnoteWeb account via an official Endnote license (in our case via the NIOO IP address) you can access your MYENDNOTEWEB for two years only with your login.