PLoS Article-Level Metrics: Interview with Martin Fenner
This blog occasionally does interviews with people providing interesting tools for scholars. These interviews have always been among my favorite...
Martin Fenner
Marketing for Scientists
The April issue of Nature Materials contains three articles that discuss marketing strategies for scientists. The Editorial (“The scientific marketplace”) introduces the topic and explains why scientists should consider marketing their work. The issue also contains...
Why I still like FriendFeed, why Twitter is important and other thoughts about Altmetrics
Altmetrics – tools to assess the impact of scholarly works based on alternative online measures such as bookmarks, links, blog posts,...
A Few Questions about Science Spam
This was another week with a fair amount of spam in my email inbox. We all receive email spam on...
Crowdsourcing the analysis of scholarly tweets
In December Euan Adie and I started the CrowdoMeter project, an analysis of the semantic content of tweets linking to...
Reference Manager Papers now available for Windows
Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a big fan of the reference manager Papers – three years ago we even had a poetry contest when the iPhone version was first released. The strength of...