Dear Rosarie & LIS-Bibliometrics,

I am very late to this email thread. I have been on maternity leave and am just now returning this week. I wanted to let you know that Virginia Tech has formed a couple of groups recently that have overlapped. I started my position, which is newly created, in September last year, and one of my goals was to form a working group and to eventually approach Faculty Senate (FS) about surveying the faculty on how their research is assessed. Things took off faster than expected, and after forming the group, I was approached by someone who is chairing a new FS committee on the assessment of faculty research/scholarship. We found out we had the same ideas and goals, and so I designed the rough draft of a survey right before my daughter was born and my maternity leave started. It had to go through edits from the committee and our internal working group and then approval/exemption from the IRB, so it just got distributed last week. I will be analyzing the results of the survey next week. Essentially, this online survey asks:
There's more to the survey than the bullets listed, but this gives a general overview. In addition to surveying the faculty, the internal library working group will be evaluating research assessment products currently in use at Virginia Tech, which include:
  • Products
    • Scopus / SciVal / Funding Institutional
    • Web of Science / InCites
    • 1Findr
    • (Dimensions - free version)
  • Things to evaluate
    • What content / disciplines do they cover
    • What metrics are included and what are the methodologies
    • How transparent is each in describing their content sourcing, metric creation
    • How user-friendly are they - for individual authors / for dept level reporting / for institutional information / etc.
Our groups and projects are still really new and just starting, but I'd thought I share this! It would be useful to know what other librarians and institutions have found doing similar projects.

Sincerely,
Rachel

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Rachel Miles
Research Impact Librarian
Research Collaboration & Engagement
Virginia Tech University Libraries
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:53 PM Day, Justin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Monica,

 

I will not be at ALA this year. I may go to the Transforming Research conference. I attended two years ago and it was very relevant and filled with a community of people in this area. This year’s program looks engaging.

 

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Justin Day, MLIS
PubCenter Senior Research Librarian
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Ihli, Monica (Monica)
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 9:33 AM
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Subject: Re: Do you have a research metrics group on campus?

 

Hi Justin,

 

Thank you for sharing your report. As a bibliometrics researcher and librarian at a university in close proximity to one of these labs, I've heard some about the work being done in this area. It will be interesting to see a little more from the agency-level view of what research metrics goals and strategies should be. It seems to me that one of the challenges of a national research metrics strategy for the U.S. is that the federal agencies are highly autonomous, in addition to the circumstances of the funding environment.

 

Do you or any of your group plan on being at ALA this year? It would be nice to to meet some folks in the U.S. who work in this area.

 

Monica Ihli

Assistant Professor & Librarian

Liaison to ORNL, Joint Institutes, & Interdisciplinary PhD Programs

University of Tennessee Libraries

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Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

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From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Day, Justin <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2019 11:50 AM
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Subject: Re: Do you have a research metrics group on campus?

 

Hello,

 

I lead a working group too, but of representatives (usually one librarian and one performance group representative) from each of the five U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories that are contractually-run partially or wholly by Battelle Memorial Institute. (This is a subset of the 18 labs in the DOE system.) We came together to discuss the Snowball Metrics framework, and how we could employ it in each lab’s practices of measuring the performance of its publications. We call our working group the Battelle Snowball Metrics Working Group (highly inventive name, I know!). We’ve been around for almost two years. The effort started out of my work and Lab.

 

Our report is available to the public at the DOE’s publications hub called OSTI.GOV. Here is the URL for the landing page:

 

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1462196-implementing-snowball-metrics-battelle-affiliated-doe-national-laboratories

 

We selected a small number of metrics, and tailored the recipes so they fit with the tools, document types, time periods, and use that is relevant to these Labs. Each lab is different because of its science missions, budget, staff size, and available tools (among other factors), which made this effort a very interesting one. There was a lot of diversity of thought and practice that we discussed. It is a meaty report, but we wanted our audience (who has little or presumed knowledge of these metrics) to understand exactly how to use these metrics and the circumstances under which the data should be interpreted.

 

I’m available to respond to feedback and questions, although my response may be delayed. Thanks for your patience.

 

Cheers,

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Justin Day, MLIS
PubCenter Senior Research Librarian
Communications & IT Directorate

 

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA  99352 USA
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From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Gray, Andrew
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:10 AM
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Subject: Re: Do you have a research metrics group on campus?

 

Hi Rosarie,

 

We have a working group on metrics, formally under the library, which was established 2013 - I’ve attached TORs with the names of members removed. It currently has about equal numbers of librarians, research support/administration people, and researchers, plus a postgraduate student representative.

 

The focus of the working group is on high-level overview of what we do with metrics, setting guidelines for responsible use, etc. We’re also planning to form a broader and more informal group – a sort of “metrics community of practice” – which would bring together people who’re actually doing metrics-oriented work on a day-to-day basis to help provide shared support – this would probably be a bit closer to what you’re thinking of.

 

InCites is available to everyone at the university, though we don’t promote it very much and so in practice it’s not widely used. We’re now a bit more confident in being able to offer support for it, which hadn’t been as practical in the past, so we’re planning to start promoting it more in the near future.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Andrew.

 

Andrew Gray

Bibliometrics Support Officer

UCL Library Services

 

Telephone 020 7679 2363 [internal: 32363]

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From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Rosarie Coughlan
Sent: 11 February 2019 19:32
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Subject: Do you have a research metrics group on campus?

 

Hello there,

 

Here at Queen’s University (Canada) we have recently taken out a subscription to InCites and are in the early stages of formulating a group to look at this tool and the area of research metrics more broadly.

 

Do you have a research impacts / metrics-type group on campus, if so, would you be willing to share your ToRs and any information about uses and approaches to InCites (who is using it, how do you manage access (is it IP and open to all) and what services do you provide?

 

Many thanks in advance!

Rosarie

 

 

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