Introducing tenurometer.indiana.edu

[Fil Menczer]

Dear colleagues,

Please forgive the wide distribution of this announcement. We write to
introduce a new social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help
evaluate the impact of an author's publications:

http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/

Tenurometer <http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/> provides a smart interface to
make Google Scholar more powerful, convenient, and easy to use. Unlike *Publish
or Perish*, Tenurometer is not a standalone application; it is a browser
extension, so it can be used on any computer with a Firefox browser.

There is a twist. By using Tenurometer <http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/> you
help tag authors and contribute to a social database of annotations,
associating authors, papers, and disciplines. We plan to make this data
publicly available for research purposes. All you do is use
Tenurometer<http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/>for your own purposes, and
submit one or more discipline tags when you
query. Statistics from the annotations are
available<http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/statistics.html>on the
Tenurometer website.

In addition to providing various established impact measures such as the
h-index, Tenurometer <http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/> leverages the
statistics collected from user annotations to make it possible for the first
time to compute the "universal h-index" (Radicchi  & al, PNAS
2008<http://www.pnas.org/content/105/45/17268>).
This measure is designed to quantitatively compare the impact of authors in
different disciplines, with different citation patterns. While citation
analysis has its well-known limitations and must be used with care, the
universal h-index and its Tenurometer
<http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/>implementation may represent an
important step toward meaningful comparative
evaluation of research impact across diverse disciplines in science, the
social sciences, arts and humanities.

Please download the Tenurometer
add-on<http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/download.html>.
Once you install it in your Firefox browser, you can access the extension
from the *View > Sidebar* menu, and start querying. On the Tenurometer
website you can learn more about the
tool<http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/about.html>,
read frequently asked questions <http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/faqs.html>,
consult a help screen <http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/help.html>, and find
out how to provide feedback <http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/feedback.html>.
We look forward to your suggestions! And if you find the tool useful, please
feel free to forward this note to your colleagues.

Filippo Menczer <http://informatics.indiana.edu/fil> & Diep Thi
Hoang<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/%7Edihoang/>
Tenurometer Team
School of Informatics & Computing
Indiana University, Bloomington
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