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Title: MESUR: USAGE-BASED METRICS OF SCHOLARLY IMPACT

Abstract

The evaluation of scholarly communication items is now largely a matter of expert opinion or metrics derived from citation data. Both approaches can fail to take into account the myriad of factors that shape scholarly impact. Usage data has emerged as a promising complement to existing methods o fassessment but the formal groundwork to reliably and validly apply usage-based metrics of schlolarly impact is lacking. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded MESUR project constitutes a systematic effort to define, validate and cross-validate a range of usage-based metrics of schlolarly impact by creating a semantic model of the scholarly communication process. The constructed model will serve as the basis of a creating a large-scale semantic network that seamlessly relates citation, bibliographic and usage data from a variety of sources. A subsequent program that uses the established semantic network as a reference data set will determine the characteristics and semantics of a variety of usage-based metrics of schlolarly impact. This paper outlines the architecture and methodology adopted by the MESUR project and its future direction.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
985894
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-07-0663
TRN: US201017%%72
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES ; 200706 ; VANCOUVER
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNICATIONS; EVALUATION; METRICS; SHAPE

Citation Formats

BOLLEN, JOHAN, RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A, and VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT. MESUR: USAGE-BASED METRICS OF SCHOLARLY IMPACT. United States: N. p., 2007. Web. doi:10.1145/1255175.1255273.
BOLLEN, JOHAN, RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A, & VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT. MESUR: USAGE-BASED METRICS OF SCHOLARLY IMPACT. United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/1255175.1255273
BOLLEN, JOHAN, RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A, and VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT. 2007. "MESUR: USAGE-BASED METRICS OF SCHOLARLY IMPACT". United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/1255175.1255273. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/985894.
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title = {MESUR: USAGE-BASED METRICS OF SCHOLARLY IMPACT},
author = {BOLLEN, JOHAN and RODRIGUEZ, MARKO A and VAN DE SOMPEL, HERBERT},
abstractNote = {The evaluation of scholarly communication items is now largely a matter of expert opinion or metrics derived from citation data. Both approaches can fail to take into account the myriad of factors that shape scholarly impact. Usage data has emerged as a promising complement to existing methods o fassessment but the formal groundwork to reliably and validly apply usage-based metrics of schlolarly impact is lacking. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded MESUR project constitutes a systematic effort to define, validate and cross-validate a range of usage-based metrics of schlolarly impact by creating a semantic model of the scholarly communication process. The constructed model will serve as the basis of a creating a large-scale semantic network that seamlessly relates citation, bibliographic and usage data from a variety of sources. A subsequent program that uses the established semantic network as a reference data set will determine the characteristics and semantics of a variety of usage-based metrics of schlolarly impact. This paper outlines the architecture and methodology adopted by the MESUR project and its future direction.},
doi = {10.1145/1255175.1255273},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/985894}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2007},
month = {Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2007}
}

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