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October 28, 2010 6

Alt-metrics: A manifesto

By in Evaluation, Social Media, Statistics, Web 2.0

Tweet J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Alt-metrics: A manifesto, (v.1.0), 26 October 2010. http://altmetrics.org/manifesto No one can read everything. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new [...]

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September 22, 2010 15

ReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact

By in Announcements, Collaboration, Reference management, Statistics, Visualization, Web 2.0

Tweet Readers of this blog are not new to my ramblings on soft peer review, social metrics and post-publication impact measures: can we measure the impact of scientific research based on usage data from collaborative annotation systems, social bookmarking services and social media? should we expect major discrepancies between citation-based and readership-based impact measures? are [...]

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January 29, 2010 4

Introducing citeproc-js

By in Computing tips, Early-adopter, FOSS, Reference management, Software, Web 2.0, Writing

citeproc-js is a citation processor driven by CSL (Citation Style Language), an open standard for describing citation and bibliography formats. It is a low-level tool, developed in connection with the Zotero project, that aims to provide a uniform engine for handling references across a wide variety of platforms.

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September 4, 2009 7

Prise these programs away from my cold, dead hands

By in Software

Tweet Today I am going to share a few of the programs (on windows) that make life a little bit more easier and I can’t live without. We  might make this a series if the other ap.com bloggers want in the action.

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August 20, 2009 5

Nascent: Igor – a Google Wave robot to manage your references

By in Collaboration, e-Science, Evaluation, FOSS, Software, Web 2.0, Writing

Tweet Looks like the Connotea team is on the right track. Instead of trying to bolt something to insert references into word, they are trying to go straight to wave. We have blogged before about what a good integration between references and writing tools should look like, and quite honestly, Igor looks like it’s really [...]