2013 SSP 35th Annual Meeting
Concurrent 3C: Measure for measure:…
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Concurrent 3C: Measure for measure: the role of metrics in assessing research performance
We are moving towards a world where measurement predominates. The rise of article level metrics is just part of a much bigger picture of measuring research impact. There are many parties involved with evaluating scholarship, and all have their own needs and motivations – from funders through to institutions, and authors. This panel session will discuss the role of metrics in measuring research performance and the potential opportunities, threats, and ultimate impact on publishers.
Moderator:
Melinda Kenneway,TBI Communications
Speakers
William Gunn, Mendeley Inc
Dr. William Gunn is the Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, a research management tool for collaboration and discovery. Dr. Gunn attended Tulane University as a Louisiana Board of Regents Fellow, receiving his Ph.D in Biomedical Science from the Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University in 2008. Frustrated with the inefficiencies of the modern research process, he left academia and established the biology program at Genalyte, a novel diagnostics startup. From there, Dr. Gunn moved to Mendeley to pursue his mission of bringing modern network efficiencies to academic research.
Kristi Holmes, Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine
Kristi Holmes, PhD is a Bioinformaticist at Washington Universitys Becker Medical Library where she works to develop and support cross-disciplinary initiatives across a variety of subject areas and audiences. Her professional interests include collaboration support, open science, the Semantic Web, and understanding the impact of research efforts (http://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment). Dr. Holmes is a member of the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences Tracking and Evaluation team as well as the leadership team for the Semantic web-based discovery platform, VIVO, where she also serves as Outreach Lead for the effort.
Michael Habib, Elsevier B.V.
Michael Habib is a Product Manager at Elsevier and holds an MS in Library Science from the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a member of the Scopus team where he focuses on streamlining the scholarly literature research workflow. Michael has previously held roles in such varied institutions as a public library, academic libraries and a print-on-demand publisher.