Tag: Impact factor

• Leading universities adopt Mendeley data to accelerate research analytics by 3 years

  This week, leading academic institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia signed up to Mendeley’s new data dashboard, the Mendeley Institutional Edition. The dashboard analyses their research activity and impact on the global research community in real time – down from the 3-5 year time lag of the “Impact Factor”, the current gold standard for…

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  victorhenning

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  August 7, 2012

  3–4 minutes

• What flavor is your research? Take our survey on grant review and tenure decision making.

  Mendeley is emerging as a leading source of data on how ideas spread and which academics are the most widely read and influential in their respective fields. At Altmetrics12, a gathering of the leading researchers studying how social networks and the web are changing research, several researchers presented papers examining how Mendeley’s readership data compares…

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  drgunn

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  June 22, 2012

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• Tracking Scholarly Impact on the Social Web: An #Altmetrics Workshop

  New ways of getting your work noticed via the web has been a very frequent topic of our posts here. We’ve written about raising your online visibility, making your work more discoverable, and many other aspects of getting your work noticed online. That’s why it makes me very happy to announce that a workshop is…

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  drgunn

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  March 22, 2011

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• Another researcher index? ReaderMeter looks to answer with Mendeley

  ReaderMeter is a proof-of-concept application showcasing the potential of readership data obtained from reference management tools. Following the announcement of the Mendeley API, I decided to see what could be built on top of the data exposed by Mendeley and the first idea was to write a mashup aggregating author-level readership statistics based on the…

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  Jason Hoyt

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  September 22, 2010

  1–2 minutes

• The top 10 journal articles published in 2009 by readership on Mendeley

  Having seen a lot of ‘top 10 lists of 2009’ around, we thought we’d throw in our two cents and give you the top 10 most read articles on Mendeley, published in 2009! The top paper for 2009 was written by Uri Alon, entitled: ‘How to choose a good scientific problem’, published in the journal…

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  victorhenning

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  January 28, 2010

  3–5 minutes