SocSciBot works by (a) crawling one or more web sites and then (b) analysing them to produce standard statistics about the interlinking between the sites and network diagrams of the interlinking. It can also run a limited linguistic analysis of the text in the collection of web sites.
The project's major objective is enriching the toolkit used for the assessment of the impact of scholarly communication items, and hence of scholars, with metrics that derive from usage data. The project has created a semantic model of the scholarly communication process, and an associated large-scale semantic store that relates a range of bibliographic, citation and usage data obtained from a variety of sources
The aim of this project is to develop COUNTER-compliant usage reports at the individual article level that can be implemented by any entity (publisher, aggregator, IR, etc.,) that hosts online journal articles and will enable the usage of research outputs to be recorded, reported and consolidated at a global level in a standard way.
Created by Professor Henk Moed at CTWS, University of Leiden, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.
This website is dedicated to the development, dissemination and discussion of journal indicators. Such indicators are being developed to assess the quality and impact of scholarly journals within the scientific community. The pioneeering one is the journal impact factor developed by Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), nowadays Thomson Reuters. Recently, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University developed for Elsevier Scopus an indicator called the source normalized impact per paper (SNIP, see Moed, 2009). This indicator can be seen as an important alternative to the impact factor. More information is available in the Documentation section. Currently, the SNIP is being produced by CWTS exclusively for Scopus.