Thomson Reuter Impact Factors: 2012
June 20, 2013
It is that time of the year that all journal editor-in-chiefs and publisher both love and fear. It is the time of the year when the new Thomson Reuter’s Journal Citation Reports are released. If the impact factor for your journal of choice has gone up, then all is right with the world and you …
Ranking’s research impact indicator is skewed
March 5, 2013
Thanks to Chris Ennew for pointing me towards this article from the University World News web site. It starts: “The 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings consisted of 13 indicators grouped into five clusters. One of these clusters consisted of precisely one indicator, research impact, which is measured by normalised citations and which THE …
Web of Knowledge
December 13, 2012
In case you are unfamiliar with some of the facilities that are available to you as a researcher at UNMC, we thought it might be useful to briefly cover some of them. Many services are subscription based so you either need to be on campus (when the IP will give you access), or you can …
Data Citation Index
October 30, 2012
Many disciplines have a set of standard datasets/benchmarks that are used by the discipline for a variety of purposes. Thomson Reuter have recognised this and now provide a way to access registered datasets as part of their search functionality. They have done this by launching a new service. A short video describing it can be …
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