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From: Loet Leydesdorff <loet -- leydesdorff.net>
Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Introducing tenurometer.indiana.edu
To: SIGMETRICS -- listserv.utk.edu
From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS_at_LISTSERV.UTK.EDU] On Behalf Of Fil Menczer
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:19 AM
To: SIGMETRICS -- LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Introducing tenurometer.indiana.edu
Dear colleagues,
Please forgive the wide distribution of this announcement. We write to
introduce a new social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help
evaluate the impact of an author's publications:
http://tenurometer.indiana.edu/
Tenurometer provides a smart interface to make Google Scholar more
powerful, convenient, and easy to use. Unlike Publish or Perish,
Tenurometer is not a standalone application; it is a browser
extension, so it can be used on any computer with a Firefox browser.
There is a twist. By using Tenurometer you help tag authors and
contribute to a social database of annotations, associating authors,
papers, and disciplines. We plan to make this data publicly available
for research purposes. All you do is use Tenurometer for your own
purposes, and submit one or more discipline tags when you query.
Statistics from the annotations are available on the Tenurometer
website.
In addition to providing various established impact measures such as
the h-index, Tenurometer leverages the statistics collected from user
annotations to make it possible for the first time to compute the
"universal h-index" (Radicchi & al, PNAS 2008). This measure is
designed to quantitatively compare the impact of authors in different
disciplines, with different citation patterns. While citation analysis
has its well-known limitations and must be used with care, the
universal h-index and its Tenurometer implementation may represent an
important step toward meaningful comparative evaluation of research
impact across diverse disciplines in science, the social sciences,
arts and humanities.
Please download the Tenurometer add-on. Once you install it in your
Firefox browser, you can access the extension from the View > Sidebar
menu, and start querying. On the Tenurometer website you can learn
more about the tool, read frequently asked questions, consult a help
screen, and find out how to provide feedback. We look forward to your
suggestions! And if you find the tool useful, please feel free to
forward this note to your colleagues.
Filippo Menczer & Diep Thi Hoang
Tenurometer Team
School of Informatics & Computing
Indiana University, Bloomington
Received on Thu Nov 26 2009 - 11:40:45 GMT