[Air-L] "Final Impact: What Factors Really Matter?" / Columbia University Libraries Program

McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] gerrymck at iastate.edu
Mon Dec 29 14:32:07 PST 2008


Colleagues/

 

I have discovered a Most Important A/V of the "Final Impact: What
Factors Really Matter?" presentations 

delivered as part of the Research without Borders: The Changing World of
Scholarly Communication series

sponsored by Scholarly Communication Program of the Columbia University
Libraries / Information Services division 

 

"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 [Start: 4:15] 

 

* Jevin West, an Achievement Awards for College Scientists Fellow at the
University of Washington's Biology Department and head developer for
Eigenfactor.org [Start: 20:10] 

 

* Johan Bollen, a staff researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory and
the principal investigator of the MESUR project [Start: 61:45]

 

Columbia University Librarian Jim Neal introduces the talk [Start:
00:00]

 

Links to appropriate background information sources and The A/V are
available at 

 

[ http://tinyurl.com/8oxg97 ]

 

NOTE: Each Presentation Is Exceptional / I Believe That The Third (By
Johan Bollen) Will Be Of Great Value To Those Interested In Online
Social Networks ; Social Network Analysis ; Bibliometrics ;
Scientometrics ; Metrics ; Etc. 

 

May I Recommend That You Listen To Each At Least Three (3) Times ...

 

May All Have a Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

 

Regards, 

 

/Gerry 

 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

 

gerrymck at iastate.edu <mailto:gerrymck at iastate.edu>  

 

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