Friday, February 27, 2009

Final Impact: What Factors Really Matter? | Scholarly Communication Program

Final Impact: What Factors Really Matter? | Scholarly Communication Program 

Final Impact: What Factors Really Matter?

A panel discussion on the debate about the best way to rank the importance and influence of scholarly publications. Panelists: Marian Hollingsworth, director of Publisher Relations at Thomson Reuters and former assistant director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services; Jevin West, an Achievement Awards for College Scientists Fellow at the University of Washington's Biology Department and head developer for Eigenfactor.org; and Johan Bollen, a staff researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the principal investigator of the MESUR project. Columbia University Librarian Jim Neal introduces the talk.

Video from here -- http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/final-impact-what-factors-really-matter

Read the Twitter feed from the panel here.

Final Impact: What Factors Really Matter? | Scholarly Communication Program

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