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I was speaking with a colleague recently who, like many of us, had experienced the frustration of trying to support his on-line resources.  He has assembled a comprehensive on-line resource, it is used by the community and was used by others to publish their studies.  It is not Genbank or EBI;  it is one of the thousands of on-line databases created by individuals or small groups that the Neuroscience Information Framework and others have catalogued.  My colleague has spent years on this resource, pored over hundreds of references and entered close to a mill

At the recent Beyond the PDF2 meeting, FORCE11 issued the "1K Challenge" :  What would you do to make research communication for 1K that doesn't involve building another tool? 

A week has passed since wrapping up the Beyond the PDF2 conference.  I’ve been amazed at the number of commentaries that have already appeared and I’m feeling I'm a little late to the party.  But despite my new found embrace of the blog, I am not quick to the keyboard.  Rather, I tend to take a few days to reflect, synthesize and yes, begin the brain’s innate tendency to bend and shape the narrative to my own point of view. So here is what my brain has produced:

Citation analysis is the dominate method for research assessment but it is not perfect. Although citation-based metrics have been improved to evaluate research performance more effectively, all the measures have some inherent limitations rooted in the nature of citation practice. Altmetrics is a new movement which tries to find complementary measures for traditional metrics based on scholars’ activities on the social web platforms. In my PhD project I focus on new measure to capture non-traditional research impact based on altmetrics tools.