Title of article :
Applying social bookmarking data to evaluate journal usage
Author/Authors :
Haustein، نويسنده , , Stefanie and Siebenlist، نويسنده , , Tobias، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
فصلنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
Abstract :
Web 2.0 technologies are finding their way into academics: specialized social bookmarking services allow researchers to store and share scientific literature online. By bookmarking and tagging articles, academic prosumers generate new information about resources, i.e. usage statistics and content description of scientific journals. Given the lack of global download statistics, the authors propose the application of social bookmarking data to journal evaluation. For a set of 45 physics journals all 13,608 bookmarks from CiteULike, Connotea and BibSonomy to documents published between 2004 and 2008 were analyzed. This article explores bookmarking data in STM and examines in how far it can be used to describe the perception of periodicals by the readership. Four basic indicators are defined, which analyze different aspects of usage: Usage Ratio, Usage Diffusion, Article Usage Intensity and Journal Usage Intensity. Tags are analyzed to describe a reader-specific view on journal content.
Keywords :
Usage statistics , Journal Evaluation , Download data , tagging , Connotea , CiteULike , BibSonomy , Social bookmarking , Science 2.0 , Reader perception , counter
Journal title :
Journal of Informetrics
Journal title :
Journal of Informetrics