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A guide to identifying author gender for bibliometric analyses

In 2018, I wrote a post for The Bibliomagician blog on identifying authors’ genders based on name analyses, based on a lively …
Nov 6, 2020 5 min read Work & Research

New article: “Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Indicators: An Analysis of a National Survey of Academic Librarians in the United States”

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication just published “ Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with …
Jul 17, 2018 2 min read Work & Research

Mellon Grant to Support Values-Based Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences

CC-BY Nicky Agate / Medium I’m excited to announce that the HuMetricsHSS research team–which I was a part of at the 2016 TriangleSCI …
Jun 20, 2017 1 min read Work & Research

Why I just deleted my ten-year Twitter history

I just used a service called Cardigan to delete the 10k+ tweets I’ve published since 2007, when I first joined Twitter. I don’t know …
Jun 16, 2017 2 min read General

Library Pipeline launches “Innovation in Libraries” micro-grant

I’m super excited to announce that the Innovation in Libraries grant is now accepting applications: …
Mar 1, 2017 1 min read Work & Research

Altmetrics and the reform of the promotion & tenure system

For the past few weeks, I’ve been working with a colleague at Altmetric to develop a guide for using altmetrics in one’s promotion and …
Sep 6, 2016 6 min read Work & Research

“The Use of Altmetrics in Promotion and Tenure” published in Educause Review

An article I co-authored along with Cassidy Sugimoto (Indiana University) and Sierra Williams (LSE Impact Blog) was recently published …
Apr 28, 2016 1 min read Work & Research

Reddit AMA – May 10th!

_[Cross-posted from the Digital Science blog on 25th April 2016 ][1]_   Join us for a Reddit Ask Me Anything with Stacy Konkiel …
Apr 25, 2016 2 min read EVENTS, Work & Research

Results of the #Force2016 Innovation Challenge: we won!

I’m pleased to report that along with the team behind Radian (a knowledge portal for data management librarians), the Metric Tookit …
Apr 20, 2016 1 min read Work & Research

The case against (only) using metrics for collection management

I’m currently working with Sarah Sutton at Emporia State University on launching a survey to get a sense of how librarians use …
Jul 14, 2015 3 min read Work & Research