Journal Impact Factor Visualisation

http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/journal-impact-factor-visualisation/
Whilst looking around for inspiration for things that could go into a mashup to jazz up the OU repository, I came across the rather wonderful eigenfactor.org which provides an alternative (the “eigenfactor”) to the Thompson Scientific Impact Factor measure of academic journal “weight”.
The site provides a range of graphical tools for exploring the relative impact [...]

Eigenfactor

http://www.eigenfactor.org/

The EigenfactorTM algorithm ranks journals much as Google ranks websites.

Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of [...]

TR CITATION IMPACT CENTER

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/citationimpactcenter/
new items added to the blog are
Preserving the Integrity of The Journal Impact Factor Guidelines from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters
H-index: The hottest topic in information science today
Thomson Scientific Speaks with David Tempest, Elsevier
Thomson Scientific speaks with Jim Testa, Thomson Scientific’s Director of Editorial Development, about Impact Factor
Thomson [...]

How value-added metrics helped a leading university benchmark, rank, and evaluate their performance

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/media/newsletterpdfs/8462431/usi.pdf
Case Summary: To better demonstrate the success of their world-class research programs,
administrators at the University of Toronto needed access to a new set of evaluative metrics
— metrics that would affirm the university’s wide-ranging influence and tremendous
research productivity. With University Science Indicators, Thomson Reuters empowered the
University of Toronto with the ability to quantify its research achievements [...]

USING BIBLIOMETRICS: A GUIDE TO EVALUATING RESEARCH PERFORMANCE WITH CITATION DATA

http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/news/newsletter/2008-07/8465001/
Until relatively recently, peer review was the main route by which science policymakers and research funders made policy decisions about science. However this is now being combined with bibliometrics to provide solid, objective information that impact resources, careers and future directions.
A library faced with collection decisions, a foundation making funding [...]

Bibliometrics pilot exercise

As part of developing the Research Excellence Framework (REF), we are running a pilot exercise in the construction of bibliometric indicators of research quality. The pilot exercise will develop and test the process and run from summer 2008 to spring 2009, when we will use its findings to establish proposals for [...]

ERA Journal Access

http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/era/
The intent of this page is to provide a quick, efficient access to the over 21,000 records which constitute the ERA journal ranking list.
Ranking list is as available (ARC URL below) at June 2008.
Select Access Method

By Field of Research
By all or part of journal name

This service is provided by John Lamp who can [...]

Consultation on the Research Outlet Rankings

http://www.arc.gov.au/era/indicators.htm
The ERA initiative will use a range of indicators and other proxies to support the evaluation of research excellence. One of these indicators is discipline-specific tiered outlet rankings.
The ARC is now seeking feedback from the sector to assist with the development of research journal rankings, a subset of tiered outlet rankings.  [...]

Citation Statistics

http://www.mathunion.org/Publications/Report/CitationStatistics
This is a report about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research. The idea that research assessment must be done using “simple and objective” methods is increasingly prevalent today. The “simple and objective” methods are broadly interpreted as bibliometrics, that is, citation data and the statistics derived from them. [...]

The Import Of Impact: New types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/86/8621sci1.html
Observations drawn from the U.K. experience should help clarify exactly how large a role citation metrics should play in the research sector.