Elsevier acquires the profiling service Parity
Elsevier acquires the profiling service Parity. It is thus further expanding its existing portfolio of science management services. Elsevier acquires the profiling service Parity According...
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Google Scholar releases its Scholar Metrics 2019
Google Scholar released its journal ranking, the Scholar Metrics 2019. The new ranking can be found here. It includes journals that follow Google’s inclusion guidelines...
The next step in benchmarking in science: Clarivate Analytics launches Publisher Analytics Reports
At the beginning of June, Clarivate Analytics, vendor of the Impact database Web of Science, among others, informed about the launch of the Publisher Analytics...
Updated list of highly cited open-access journals
Yesterday the National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE (Germany) published an updated list of of frequently cited open-access journals. The list comprises 800 Open Access...
Germany: Implementation of a competence and networking platform in the field of Open Access
On the 20th of May, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) announced a funding programme for implementation...
Präsentation zum Workshop „Publizieren wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten“ online
Ab heute stehen die Folien zum gestrigen Workshop „Publizieren wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten“ an der Universität des Saarlandes (UdS) online. Wie sich auf dem Bild unten erkennen...
ReseachGate is granted a patent for (semantic) citation analysis
The Library Journal two days ago informed about an interesting patent granted to the Social Network ResearchGate: „ResearchGate Granted U.S. Patent 10,282,424: ‚Linking Documents Using...
Workshop zum wissenschaftlichen Publizieren an der Universität des Saarlandes
Am 16. Mai veranstalte ich an meiner Heimatuniversität, der Universität des Saarlandes, einen Workshop zum „Publizieren wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten“ im Graduierten-Progamm GradUS. Auf der GradUS-Seite finden...
Use and Usefulness of bibliometric and scientometric Data for Knowledge Management
On 11.05.2019 I will give a visiting lecture at the department of Information Science of the Fachhochschule Graubünden (University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons/...
Springer Nature reaches £9.6 million agreement in the UK – not included: Nature-branded titles
According to a press release by Springer Nature there is a new contract of the group with Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The deal is...