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Usage FactorsUsage-based measurements of journal quality - research project enters its second stageIn 2007 the United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG), in association with the online usage metrics organisation COUNTER, published the results of a wide-ranging study which explored how online journal usage statistics might form the basis of a new metric of journal quality. The study combined a web-based survey of opinion with a series of in-depth interviews with stakeholders from the author, publisher and librarian communities. The aim of these twin avenues of research was to examine the ways in which journal quality is currently assessed, and the degree to which any additional usage-based metrics might prove valuable to each stakeholder community, along with practical ways in which such metrics might be derived and constructed to provide the maximum utility for all, within defined resource constraints.
15 June 2007 - Final Report of Stage 1 published - click here for details For a PowerPoint presentation summarising the development of the project so far and the modelling and analysis work which is being developed as part of Stage 2 - click here A Request For Proposal for the modelling and analysis work will shortly be issued. A copy of the RFP will be made available from this page.
For more information on this study please contact:
Paul Harwood
Richard Gedye
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