Elsevier acquires Science-Metrix Inc., provider of research analytics services and data - December 19, 2018

Elsevier acquires Science-Metrix Inc., provider of research analytics services and data

New York, December 19, 2018

Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, has acquired Science-Metrix Inc., a research evaluation firm that provides science research evaluation and analytics to assess science and technology activities. Headquartered in Montréal, Canada, Science-Metrix is known for high-quality and independent bibliometric analysis and research evaluation.

“Science-Metrix was an early adopter of Elsevier’s abstract database Scopus and has worked closely with Elsevier for more than 10 years,” said Dr. Éric Archambault, Chief Executive Officer and founder of Science-Metrix. “I’m excited that now with Elsevier, we’ll be even stronger and better positioned to develop better performance measurement tools for our customers.”

Science-Metrix works for governmental, educational, nonprofit and private organizations that perform scientific research or deal with funding and management of science and technology. Its services enable evidence-based decision-making, strategic planning and outcome assessment processes for governments, international organizations, universities, scientific societies, publishers and technology companies.

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The UC Libraries release the Pathways to OA analysis - March 21, 2018

In order to make informed and data-driven decisions about which endeavors to pursue at scale, the UC Libraries prepared an analysis of the various approaches to or models for achieving open access, and the actionable strategies that exist to implement each approach. This analysis, compiled in the Pathways to OA documents, was endorsed by the UC Council of University Librarians (CoUL) on 27 February 2018. The Pathways to OA is intended to assist campus libraries and the California Digital Library with an individual, and where appropriate, collective decision-making about which OA strategies, possible next steps, or experiments to pursue in order to achieve a large-scale transition to OA.

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Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for December 2017 - new statistics view

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for December 2017

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

Stats: Summary for December 2017

Deposits	Total requests	Download	View-only
492	91,008	49,228	41,780

Breakdown By Item

Item	Title	Total requests	2017-12	2017-11	2017-10	2017-09
1n10w5pc	Pediatric Death Due to Myocarditis After Exposure to Cannabis	27,746	895	26,616	32	203
8cd761fd	Left Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain	2,297	355	672	628	642
2504d6w3	Corrective Feedback and Teacher Development	1,628	531	546	360	191
7qq5t761	Beyond 'Looking for My Penis': Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn	1,495	412	462	461	160
13w7m06g	How Long Does It Take English Learners to Attain Proficiency	1,411	310	401	401	299
9jv108xp	A Spectral Analysis of World GDP Dynamics: Kondratieff Waves, Kuznets Swings, Juglar and Kitchin Cycles in Global Economic Development, and the 2008–2009 Economic Crisis	1,313	316	371	325	301
2bz3v185	明代職官中英辭典 Chinese-English Dictionary of Ming Government Official Titles	1,264	1,252	12
74j4h1b9	Injuries Associated with Hoverboard Use: A Case Series of Emergency Department Patients	1,093	121	944	27	1
2wb616g6	Congruence Theory Explained	1,021	264	220	296	241
7ff6j08v	Emergency Medical Services Professionals’ Attitudes About Community Paramedic Programs	1,011	127	184	456	244

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

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Metrics Toolkit launches to help academics better understand research impact - January 30, 2018

 Metrics Toolkit, a resource built to help researchers and evaluators navigate the ever-changing research metrics landscape, launched on January 30, 2018..

The Metrics Toolkit includes 27 expert-written, time-saving summaries for the most popular research metrics including the Journal Impact Factor and Altmetric Attention Score.

Even better, the Metrics Toolkit includes an app that can recommend discipline-specific metrics to satisfy your specific use cases.

Best of all, the Metrics Toolkit carries a CC-BY license so you can reuse its content as you wish!

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China declared world’s largest producer of scientific articles - Jeff Tollefson - Nature - 18 January 2018

From Nature (18 January 2018)
Jeff Tollefson

"China declared world’s largest producer of scientific articles

Report shows increasing international competition, but suggests that United States remains a scientific powerhouse.

For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).

The agency’s report, released on 18 January, documents the United States’ increasing competition from China and other developing countries that are stepping up their investments in science and technology. Nonetheless, the report suggests that the United States remains a scientific powerhouse, pumping out high-profile research, attracting international students and translating science into valuable intellectual property."

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Report - S&E Indicators 2018 - National Science Foundation