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ReaderMeter: researcher-level metrics based on readership

In a blog post last week, Dario Taraborelli officially announced ReaderMeter. ReaderMeter takes the usage data from reference managers (starting with Mendeley) to analyze the impact of publications by a particular author. ReaderMeter is a welcome addition to other metrics of researcher impact, most of which are citation-based. And ReaderMeter

Zotero soon is Everywhere

Whereas most reference managers are either standalone applications and/or web-based, Zotero works as a Firefox plugin. This approach has many advantages, but is not for everybody. So today Zotero announced Zotero Everywhere: * A browser pluging for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari and Google Chrome, and standalone desktop version for

Update of Reference Manager Overview Chart

In March 2009 I posted an overview chart of how popular reference managers have implemented some important features. I’ve since updated this chart several times, and the chart probably has outgrown the format of a blog post. For that reason I now made the chart available * on a dedicated

BioMed Central drafts position statement on open data

Last week BioMed Central published a draft position statement on open data (PDF). Iain Hrynaszkiewicz explained the statement on the BioMed Central Blog, including the five Ws of open data: 1. Why make data more open? 2. What data to make more open? 3. Where to make data more open?

Bye-Bye Nature Network

Bye-Bye Nature Network

This is my last post for this Nature Network blog. Later today, I will start a new blog somewhere else – also called Gobbledygook and covering the same topics. Writing this blog here on Nature Network since August 2007 has been an incredible experience, something that can't be covered

Supplementary Information: should I stay or should I go?

On August 11, the Journal of Neuroscience published an Announcement Regarding Supplemental Material by Editor-in-Chief John Maunsell. In it John Maunsell announces that the journal in November will stop accepting supplementary material in article submissions. The announcement has lead to an extensive discussion in the science blogosphere with a number

Discuss Papers with JournalFire

About a year ago I wrote a blog post about how to use Web 2.0 tools for a journal club (Recipe: Distributing papers for a journal club). Although reference management tools such as CiteULike and Mendeley can be used for journal clubs, discussion features are often more of an