Cancelling with the world’s largest scholarly publisher: lessons from the Swedish experience of having no access to Elsevier by Lisa Olsson, Camilla Hertil Lindelöw, Lovisa Österlund, Frida Jakobsson

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Redefining the reference librarian in the university environment by Lenuța Ursachi

“…The case of the university library in this study reveals different profiles of the reference librarian: researcher, educator in information literacy, bibliometrician, wikilibrarian, digital resources manager, reference manager etc. …”
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Swedish researchers’ responses to the cancellation of the big deal with Elsevier by Lisa Olsson, Camilla Lindelöw, Lovisa Österlund, Frida Jakobsson

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ON THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTIFICATION OF INFORMATION SOURCES BEING DISCOVERED IN THE COURSE OF CITATION STUDIES WITH THE USE OF JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS® by V. S. Lazarev, I. V. Yurik

“…All the hard-to-identify abbreviations compel a bibliometrician to take time-consuming laborious identifications and verifications of such titles often followed by the recount of the resulting data.…”
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Bibliometrics, the “Clinical Diagnostics” of Research Impact; Comment on “‘We’re Not Providing the Best Care If We Are Not on the Cutting Edge of Research’: A Research Impact Evalu... by Giovanni Abramo, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo

“…This commentary argues that the quantitative analyses and findings would have benefitted from applying evaluative bibliometrics, hopefully, conducted by experienced bibliometricians. We present the potential of bibliometrics for assessing the scholarly impact of research, as well as a few examples of its application to the case of THHS, for informing research policies and strategies.…”
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Bibliometric Reports for Institutions: Best Practices in a Responsible Metrics Scenario by Alvaro Cabezas-Clavijo, Daniel Torres-Salinas

“…The main goal of this study is to outline a series of recommendations for bibliometricians, consultants and research support librarians when drafting bibliometric reports in their institutions. …”
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Real-Time Bibliometrics: Dimensions as a Resource for Analyzing Aspects of COVID-19 by Daniel W Hook, Daniel W Hook, Simon J Porter, Hélène Draux, Christian T Herzog

“…Dimensions was built as a platform to allow stakeholders in the research community, including academic bibliometricians, to more easily create and understand the context of different types of research object through the linkages between these objects. …”
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Scopus as a curated, high-quality bibliometric data source for academic research in quantitative science studies by Baas, Jeroen, Schotten, Michiel, Plume, Andrew, Côté, Grégoire, Karimi, Reza

“…In June 2019, the International Center for the Study of Research was launched, with an advisory board consisting of bibliometricians, aiming to work with the scientometric research community and offering a virtual laboratory where researchers will be able to utilize Scopus data.…”
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El análisis de redes en el estudio de la colaboración científica by Jane M. Russell, Ma. Jesús Madera Jaramillo, Shirley Ainsworth

“…Abstract:   Social network analysis is a tool used increasingly by bibliometricians to determine the relationships between the different bibliographical elements present in a scientific paper. …”
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Perception of the importance of chemistry research papers and comparison to citation rates. by Rachel Borchardt, Cullen Moran, Stuart Cantrill, Chemjobber, See Arr Oh, Matthew R Hartings

“…We conclude from our results that peer judgements of importance and significance differ from metrics-based measurements, and that chemists should work with bibliometricians to develop metrics that better capture the nuance of opinions on the importance of a given piece of research.…”
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A fairer way to compare researchers at any career stage and in any discipline using open-access citation data. by Corey J A Bradshaw, Justin M Chalker, Stefani A Crabtree, Bart A Eijkelkamp, John A Long, Justine R Smith, Kate Trinajstic, Vera Weisbecker

“…The pursuit of simple, yet fair, unbiased, and objective measures of researcher performance has occupied bibliometricians and the research community as a whole for decades. …”
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