Re: Impact Factor, Open Access & Other Statistics-Based Quality

[Peter Suber <peters@earlham.edu>]

In addition to the initiatives that Stevan Harnad mentions below, the Open
Society Institute has convened a working group to develop an Open Access
Citation Index.  We've only met once and won't have anything to show for
quite a while.  We're still brainstorming.  If anyone on the list has
ideas or suggestions for us, please feel free to send them to Jean-Claude
Gu�don (jean.claude.guedon [at] umontreal.ca) or Melissa Hagemann
(MHagemann [at] sorosny.org).

The motivation to create the new impact measurement is very much in line
with Michael Leach's original posting in this thread.

Peter Suber
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Editor, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
peter.suber@earlham.edu

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> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Michael Leach wrote:
>
> > As we build institutional repositories (IR) and begin the process of
> > linking these repositories, we could have the ability to create our own
> > impact factors, linking the articles and citations among repositories all
> > over the world.
>
> This is not only already possible, but already happening. See:
>
> OpCit: The Open Citation Project providing Reference Linking and Citation
> Analysis for Open Archives:  <http://opcit.eprints.org/>
>
> Citebase: The Cross-OAI-Archive Citation and Download Ranking Search
> Engine: <http://citebase.eprints.org/>
>
> Citeseer: The oldest citation engine of them all, operating on harvested
> non-OAI articles in computer science archived on arbitrary websites:
> <http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cs>
>
> and the Usage/Citation Correlator, which can be used to predict eventual
> citations from current downloads:
> <http://citebase.eprints.org/analysis/correlation.php>
>
> Many other new forms of digitometric analyses and performance indicators
> will emerge as the Open Access Corpus grows.