From Information is Beautiful, another visualization of top non-fiction titles from various sources
Non-Fiction Books everyone should read:
See Novels everyone should read.
Monday, December 8, 2014
The peer-review scam
Last month Nature posted an article: Publishing: The peer-review scam, it lists the existing weaknesses in modern publishing systems and details how editors are trying to plug the holes.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Top 100 most cited papers
The Journal Nature has partnered with Thomson Reuters Web of Science database to determine the top 100 most cited papers.
Looking at 100 years of data, and the 58 million items stored in the Web of Science database, 3 articles have been cited more than a 100 000 times, all published prior to 1980, all in the biology field.
Google Scholar came up with an alternative ranking, click to see the comparison for 10 papers.
Looking at 100 years of data, and the 58 million items stored in the Web of Science database, 3 articles have been cited more than a 100 000 times, all published prior to 1980, all in the biology field.
Google Scholar came up with an alternative ranking, click to see the comparison for 10 papers.
Monday, October 6, 2014
2014 Nobel prizes predictions from Thomson Reuters
The first 2014 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medecine will be announced shortly.
Like every year Thomson Reuters uses its citation analysis tools to predict the winners. Click for the press release and full list.
Click here for the methodology.
Like every year Thomson Reuters uses its citation analysis tools to predict the winners. Click for the press release and full list.
Click here for the methodology.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
The state of Learning Management Systems in Higher Education
Educause has released a report this month: 'The Current Ecosystem of Learning Management Systems in Higher Education: Student, Faculty, and IT Perspectives"
"On average, LMSs have been in place for eight years, and 15% of U.S. higher education institutions are currently planning to replace their LMS within the next three years."
Friday, August 22, 2014
Google Scholar Profiles new look
Google Scholar Profiles have a new look for the new academic year.
Here are some of the new features, read the entire post.
Here are some of the new features, read the entire post.
- Publications are taking the center stage
- Aggregate citation metrics are moving to the sidebar
- "Follow" button is in a more prominent spot
- Printing a clean version of your profile is easier
Friday, August 8, 2014
Latest JCR released, see the top journals in your field!

You can access this tool on your library page here.
Here are the top 10 journals by impact factor for the Economics category
- Journal of Economic Literature
- Journal of Finance
- Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Journal of Economic Perspective
- Transportation Research part b-methodological
- Journal of Financial Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- Review of Financial Studies
- Econometrica
- Journal of the European Economic Association
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
2014 Google Scholar Metrics report released
Last month Google Scholar released its Scholar Metrics report for 2014, link to the Business, Economics & Management area.
"This release is based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of mid-June 2013 and covers articles published in 2009–2013."You can filter down the results by 8 broad areas and 253 specific categories. You will see the top 20 publications ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics.
Friday, June 27, 2014
Librarians and Impact
Elsevier's infographic "tells the story of how librarians are working with researchers and the research office to measure research impact and to explore the application of these measurements"
Friday, May 2, 2014
Journal Subscription Costs
Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers who had launched the 2012 Elsevier boycott movement digs deeper into the publishing giant business practices and the various ways it charges universities and schools .
Read his entire blog entry: Elsevier journals — some facts
Source: http://neurodojo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/cost-of-elsevier-journals-by-university.html |
Monday, April 7, 2014
2013-2014 AAUP Faculty Salary Survey
Another survey on faculty salary in the US.
The table is available on the Chronicle of Higher Education website:
The table is available on the Chronicle of Higher Education website:
Monday, March 17, 2014
Faculty in Higher Education Salary Survey 2014
CUPAHR, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, has released its latest faculty salary survey: Salaries of Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty at 4-Year Colleges, 2013-14
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about it and the interactive table on their website.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about it and the interactive table on their website.
"Research universities are doctorate-granting institutions that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified as having either high or very high research activity."
The top three disciplines with the highest salaries are respectively Legal Profession, Business and Engineering.
The top three disciplines with the highest salaries are respectively Legal Profession, Business and Engineering.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
ISNI: International Standard Name Identifier
Author name disambiguation has become increasingly important with the rise of bibliometrics.
This article/interview from the Scholarly Kitchen by Todd Carpenter explains the goal of ISNI: the International Standard Name Identifier initiative and its relationship with the existing ORCID (see this post).
Monday, March 3, 2014
Academic publishers remove fake papers from journals
Following revelations from French researcher Cyril Labbé, well-known editors such as IEEE or Springer had to remove conference proceeding papers created using SCIgen, a MIT-developed tool that creates computer-generated academic articles.

Read article in Nature: Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers. Cyril Labbé has developed a tool to help identify papers authored via SCIen.

Read article in Nature: Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers. Cyril Labbé has developed a tool to help identify papers authored via SCIen.
Friday, February 28, 2014
ShareLaTeX now open source
LaTeX users may already be using the ShareLaTex tool a web-based real-time collaborative LaTeX editor.
ShareLaTex is now open source, the authors hope that by opening up the code to all, requests for new features will be met faster than what their current resources allow.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
One year with MOOCs, research findings from the first 17 edX classes
Courtesy of: MOOCs.com
Professors from MIT and Harvard report on their first year in MOOCs and the edX project:
- There were 841,687 registrations from 597,692 unique users
- Only 5 percent earned a certificate of completion.
- One-third of users never viewed any course materials.
- More than half of those who completed at least half of the course went on to earn a certificate of completion
See also:
Education Week article from one of the authors,
Monday, January 27, 2014
Journal ranking by Scopus
The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a "portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database."
It offers finer levels of business and management categories than the - more well-known - Journal Citation Report by ISI Web of Knowledge.
Example for top 5 journals in
Subject Area: Business Management & Accounting
Subject Category: Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management
Hat tip to The University of Manchester Library Business Research Plus blog.
SCImago. (2007). SJR — SCImago Journal & Country Rank.
Retrieved January 27, 2014, from http://www.scimagojr.com
Hat tip to The University of Manchester Library Business Research Plus blog.
Friday, January 10, 2014
2014 Updated List of Predatory Publishers
As of January 2017, J. Beall has shut down his blog.
Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Initiatives Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, has released the 2014 list of predatory publishers and questionable journals.
Jeffrey Beall, Scholarly Initiatives Librarian and Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, has released the 2014 list of predatory publishers and questionable journals.
Reproduced with permission below, the table shows a significant growth in number:
Year
|
Number of predatory publishers
|
2011 |
18
|
2012 |
23
|
2013 |
225
|
2014 |
477
|
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