[Sigmetrics] Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics

[Chen,Chaomei]

**** Apologies for cross posting ****

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The new open access journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics is launched and ready to accept submissions.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/research-metrics-and-analytics

The scope of the journal shares many interests of the members on this list. Here is a blog on the mission and the scope:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2016/07/12/announcing-the-launch-of-frontiers-in-research-metrics-and-analytics/

A new article published today is by Henk Moed on how one may improve metrics commonly used in journal and research assessment.

Towards new indicators of a journal’s manuscript peer review process<http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00005>

Henk F. Moed<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/284937/overview>

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00005


The following articles are also openly accessible:

Grand Challenges in Measuring and Characterizing Scholarly Impact<http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00004>

Chaomei Chen<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/262902/overview>

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00004/full


A Comparative Study of the Citation Impact of Chinese Journals with Government Priority Support<http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00003>

Ping Zhou<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/284835/overview> and Loet Leydesdorff<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/310970/overview>

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00003


How to combine research guarantor and collaboration patterns to measure scientific performance of countries: nanoscience and nanotechnology as case study<http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00002>

Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/153772/overview>, Kevin Ocaña-Rosa<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/324403/overview> and Benjamin Vargas-Quesada<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/290651/overview>

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00003

Citations: Indicators of Quality? The Impact Fallacy<http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00001>

Loet Leydesdorff<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/310970/overview>, Lutz Bornmann,Jordan Comins<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/339394/overview> and Staša Milojević<http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/284377/overview>

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00001


Best wishes,

Chaomei Chen, Ph.D.
Professor of Informatics
College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University
Specialty Chief Editor, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics<http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/research-metrics-and-analytics>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.asis.org/pipermail/sigmetrics/attachments/20160720/80bf6015/attachment-0001.html>