Thanks. If you're on Twitter, I recommend you follow the #altmetrics feed where many of these issues are being actively discussed (including Wikipedia's citations/reuse of the literature).
NISO's Recommended Practice on Altmetrics Data Quality might also be of interest: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/altmetrics_initiative/ On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:30 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dario, > > Since the document specifies "Reproduction is authorised provided the > source is acknowledged," I put it here: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B73LgocyHQnfam51TnN3dlVqaVE/view > > It has only two explicit mentions of Wikipedia, in the discussion of > ImpactStory on pp. 58-9, but this document is the only official > government (European Commission) discussion of altmetrics for formal > academic reputation assessment I have been able to find anywhere. You > will probably find the discussion in the Forward and Introduction more > pertinent than the in-passing mentions of Wikipedia, and I suggest > reaching out to the authors in person for their recommended official > contacts at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies and > their government supporters could be even more productive. There seems > to be a real opening to give academia and society a great gift implied > by the other three references, if they can accept it. Thank you so > much for your interest! > > Best regards, > Jim > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Dario Taraborelli > <[email protected]> wrote: > > James – I'm interested in reading [1] but the PDF is behind a login > screen, > > can I read this somewhere else (or do you have the full reference so I > can > > search it)? > > > > Thanks, > > Dario > > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 9:43 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Can anyone familiar with European Commission procedure please explain > >> how to support the Wikipedia-associated proposals in [1] based on the > >> statistics in [2] please? Very recent publications such as [3] in > >> Nature along with what appears to be a relatively sudden groundswell > >> of frankness and support e.g. [4] suggests to me that the time is > >> right to get out in front of these proposals. > >> > >> [1] > >> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Nicholas5/ > publication/275349828_Emerging_reputation_mechanisms_for_scholars/links/ > 553a22a60cf2c415bb06e6b7.pdf > >> > >> [2] http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~xshuai/papers/jcdl240-shuai.pdf > >> > >> [3] http://www.nature.com/news/fewer-numbers-better-science-1.20858 > >> > >> [4] > >> http://blog.scielo.org/en/2016/10/14/is-it-possible-to- > normalize-citation-metrics/ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wiki-research-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Dario Taraborelli Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation > > wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Publicpolicy mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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