The Grammar of Scholarly Communication
Authoring of scholarly articles is a recurring theme in this blog since it started in 2008. Authoring is still in...
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Commenting on scientific papers
I think it is fair to say that commenting on scientific papers is broken. And with commenting I mean online...
What Can Article-Level Metrics Do for You?
Yesterday PLOS Biology published an essay by me: What Can Article Level Metrics Do for You? (Fenner, 2013). I had...
The Complete Article
Open access to research data is becoming increasingly important, as manifested by memos or press releases from the Wellcome Trust,...
Challenges in automated DOI resolution
Yesterday we created a set of roughly 10,000 DOIs for journal articles published in 2011 or 2012. We used these DOIs as a reference set in a data hackathon around article-level metrics/altmetrics - material...
Altmetrics coming of age? Not for Wikipedia
Ten days ago Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) published a special issue on altmetrics. I was the guest editor for the...