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3- Attribution and Credit: Beyond Print and Citations
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... Therefore, I think that we need to talk about changing scholarly assessment beyond the traditional way of doing things, to systems that can actually keep up with the changes in the scholarly communication process. Figure 3-1 shows that publication data and citation data are the end-product of a long chain of scholarly activities.
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... Usage data constitutes a behavioral, implicit measurement of how much "attention" a particular scholarly communication item has garnered. The challenge is thus to turn this type of behavior, implicit, clickstream data into metrics reflecting actual scholarly influence.
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... They maintain this session identifier throughout their movement from one 2 Marko A Rodriguez, Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. A Practical Ontology for the Large-Scale Modeling of Scholarly Artifacts and their Usage, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007, Vancouver, June 2007.
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... Although from our data we cannot prove that any individual user actually followed a certain path, we can say that it reflects the fact that users 4 Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Bettencourt L, Chute R, et al.
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... Mellon Foundation to develop a generalized and sustainable framework for a public, open, scholarly assessment service based on aggregated large-scale usage data, which will support the evolution of the MESUR project to a community-supported, sustainable scholarly assessment framework. This new phase of the project will focus on four areas in developing the sustainability model: 5 Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Chute R (2009)
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... · Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric HagBerg, Ryan Chute. A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures.
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... Information Processing and Management, 41(6)


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