Good afternoon everyone,
We are now being asked by colleagues in the University to run training sessions for staff and research students on bibliometrics, which is great news.
The following questions have popped up
What is a four star journal, and how can I find fours star journals for my subject area - how do people respond to this? My response is that bibliometrics and altmetrics do not star ratings as a way of ranking journals and it is possibly a legacy from Research Excellence Framework which uses stars to rank papers.
Is there a metric for ranking conferences? These are the only sites I can find for ranking conference but other than conference proceedings in Scopus which are ranked we could not find anything else. Academics are wanting this advice when research students ask for conference sponsorship
o http://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal
o http://www.conferenceranks.com/#sources
o https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/93026/what-are-some-metrics-to-rank-conferences
I welcome any feedback on how other colleagues respond to this.
Vicki McGarvey [log in to unmask]
Learning and Information Services Manager - Collection Management, Research and Digital Resources
Staffordshire University
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