AAP/PSP Seminar Announcement

[Susan Soule <ssoule@cambridge.org>]

Posted on behalf of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing 
Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP/PSP)

A new seminar from the AAP/PSP Journals Committee:

Citation Analysis & Evaluating Research Performance:
The Impact Factor, h-index and Beyond
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue (between 14th & 15th Streets)
New York, NY

Who Should Attend: Anyone involved in journals publishing, 
marketing, sales or editorial management and strategy; librarians 
involved in collection management.

The session will look at the current environment where a number 
of metric tools are available to measure research performance and 
trends.  Starting with ISI's impact factor which has been the 
cornerstone of citation analysis for decades, we will also look 
at some newly emerging methodologies - the h-index, Eigenfactor 
and SCImago Journal Rank - that analyze bibliographic data in 
different ways.  The indicators are used by many people 
throughout the world of research and scholarship:  authors in 
deciding where to publish; funding agencies in evaluating 
grantees and new grant proposals; administrators in making 
hiring, promotion and tenure decisions; publishers in managing 
journal quality and keeping abreast of new and emerging research 
trends; librarians in managing journal collections and, finally, 
the readers who want to know where to find reliable, high-quality 
information.  The seminar will address the following issues:

Moderated by: John Tagler, Vice President & Executive Director, 
Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of 
American Publishers, Inc.

1.  The basic metrics of measuring research performance
James Pringle, Vice President, Product Development, Thomson Reuters
Impact factor, h-index, Eigenfactor, SCImago Journal Rank
-What do these metrics reveal?
-How can these be used reliably?

2.  How a publisher uses these metrics to manage a publishing program
Elsevier Speaker, TBA
-Assessing a current journal and/or journal program
-Case study/example of
-Monitoring trends (emerging subfields, shifting dynamics, geographic
    trends)
-A pulse on the competition

3.  Using Metrics in Journals Marketing
Matt Price, Director, Sales & Marketing, American Chemical Society
-Positioning and promoting journals
-Case studies on a new and an established journal

4.  Collection Management: How do librarians view journal metrics?
Librarian, TBA
-Selecting new titles
-De-selection (a polite word for cancellation?) decisions
-Balancing a collection - within the institution and within 
consortia

This will be an interactive session, so bring your questions for 
the panelists.

If you feel that this information would benefit others in your 
organization, please circulate this announcement.

For more information or to register, please contact:

Sara Firestone
Association of American Publishers
71 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003-3004
Email: sfirestone@publishers.org
Phone: (212) 255-0200
Fax: (212) 255-7007