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,...
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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...
The Personalized Journal
Earlier this week I wrote a guest post for the Impact of Social Sciences blog. In the post I talk about a recent paper correlating tweets and citations (also discussed on this blog). But the main...
CrowdoMeter goes Mobile
Two weeks ago Euan Adie from altmetric.com and myself launched the website CrowdoMeter, a crowdsourcing project that tries to...
Why BibTeX, RIS and Endnote XML will soon be broken
BibTeX is one of the most popular file formats for bibliographies, and is therefore commonly used to transfer bibliographies from one reference manager to another, or to other applications that handle bibliographic references. RIS and Endnote...
Serving shortDOIs
The shortDOI service was launched by the International DOI Foundation (IDF) in May 2010. The service creates short versions of the often long DOIs, e.g. 10/dvq instead of 10.1093/hmg/ddp202 – written as...