Web Metrics for the Library and Information Professional
Publishing my first book, “Facilitating access to the web of data: a guide for librarians“, was my professional highlight of 2011. However as a webometrician the publication was only the start of the story, it was quickly followed by an obsession with all the various numbers surrounding the book: What is its sales rank on [...]
A Dubious Honour: As many ‘professional’ articles as ‘academic’ articles
Whilst I wasn’t a scholarly undergraduate, there is one particular acetate that sticks in my memory – or rather, one particular acetate for which I had vague recollections that I filled out by emailing the relevant (now retired) professor. It concerned the classifying of academics according to the quality and quantity of their outputs. If [...]