We post an article by Piero Attanasio published in the last issue of the review Informatica Umanistica (5, 2011): Valutazione delle pubblicazioni ed effetti sul settore editoriale The paper deals with questions concerning the evaluation of Italian scholarly publications and addresses some interesting issues about citations as a criterium for evaluating editorial products.
Archive for the tag 'citation'
December 13 2011
eTRACES – Winged words, quotations and our cultural heritage
Be it science or the everyday life – our language contains numerous trails of our cultural legacy in the form of winged words and quotations. Scientists now created new software tools for making this cultural legacy available in digital libraries. With the help of those programs the origin and dissemination of text passages, quotes and [...]
November 17 2011
Citogenesis
Thanks to Marco Büchler and Matthias Richter for signalling us this link to xkcd: Citogenesis
November 10 2011
Citation obsession?
We post here a link to an interesting article by Kurt Schick (The Chronicle – October 30) on modern “citation obsession”, a problem that nowadays concerns not only scholars, but also librarians, tutors, and students. The author of the article mentions The Citation Project, which is is a multi-institution research project responding to educators’ concerns [...]
