Dr. GRANT LEWISON FRSA
Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
School of Life Sciences and Medicine,
Guy’s Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT
Director, Evaluametrics Ltd
50 Marksbury Avenue, Kew, Richmond, TW9 4JF
PROFESSOR DR.NOORHIDAWATI BINTI ABDULLAH
Department of Library and Information Science
Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Universiti Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Editor- Malayan Journal of Library & Information Science
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/
TITLE OF THE TALK : CONTRIMETRICS AND ALTMETRICS AS COMPLEMENTARY INDICATORS FOR ARTICLE IMPACT
Abstract
Traditional measures of academic influence, such as the number of citations, have been supplemented in recent years by additional indices that capture broader social engagement and the influence of social media on the dissemination of research output. Alternative metrics, also known as Altmetrics, are increasingly reported to measure the reach and attention of scholarly work beyond traditional citations and reflect engagement on platforms such as social media and mass media coverage. Contrimetric, introduced by Kuo in 2023, is a metric that assesses the impact of individual research articles on the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of the respective journal. It provides a deeper understanding of how an article contributes to its field. This innovative bibliometrics tool helps categorise articles to highlight important contributions. Contrimetrics provides an improved insight than traditional citation counts by taking into account the overall citation performance of the journal and highlighting the influence of an article within the scientific community. Previous research has shown a moderate correlation between traditional bibliometric measures such as citation counts and altmetrics. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the newly introduced contrimetric and existing altmetrics to assess articles impact.
PROFESSOR DONG-GEUN OH(吳東根), Ph.D, MLIS, MBA
Professor, Department of Library & Information Science,
Director, School of Library and Information Service,
Keimyung University, 1095 Dalgubeol-daero, Dalseo-Gu, Daegu 42601, South Korea
President, I-LISS (International Library and Information Science Society)
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
PROFESSOR SUJIT BHATTACHARYA
Chief Scientist and Advisor/Dean Policy Research,
CSIR-NIScPR (erstwhile CSIR-NISTADS)
Professor – Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR)
India
Editor- Journal of Scientometric Research
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. YANTI IDAYA ASPURA BINTI MOHD KHALID
Department of Library and Information Science,
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
University of Malaya,
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Editor- Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/
TITLE OF THE TALK : Analysing Mega Journal Article Impact with Contrimetrics
Abstract
This study examines the utilization of Contrimetric, as established by Kuo (2023), in assessing the impact of individual research papers on the Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The Article Contribution to Citation Impact (ACCI) score is utilized to measure an article’s influence in comparison to the journal’s average citation performance. ACCI is calculated using the formula ACCI = (Cy – JIFy) / JIFy, where Cy denotes citations in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) year and JIFy signifies the journal’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF). This metric seeks to distinguish papers that positively influence the journal’s reputation from those that are below average. This research has two main objectives: (i) to assess the contribution of articles in mega-publications based on ACCI and (ii) to examine the advantages of ACCI for these journals. The analysis is to be based on data collected from separate mega-journals available in the most relevant bibliographic databases and alternative metrics. Different methods will be explored in establishing the relationship between ACCI scores and different attributes of the publications, including the use of regression and clustering analyses. The study will evaluate how journals might utilize Contrimetric to enhance performance, namely in soliciting submissions and improving reputational outcomes. Potential obstacles, including discipline-specific citation standards and excessive dependence on citation-based metrics, will be examined, with robustness tests confirming the veracity of the findings. This study seeks to enhance the comprehension of article impact within the framework of multidisciplinary mega-journals.
Dr.EUNGI KIM
Professor, Department of Library & Information Science,
Director, School of Library and Information Service,
Keimyung University, 1095 Dalgubeol-daero, Dalseo-Gu, Daegu 42601, South Korea
TITLE OF THE TALK : MEASURING DISPARITIES IN JOURNAL INDEXING
Abstract
This keynote addresses the critical need to measure and understand disparities in how journals are indexed within major databases such as Scopus. It emphasizes the impact of publisher volume on metrics like h-index and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), illustrating how high-volume publishers often dominate higher-ranking quartiles, potentially overshadowing smaller publishers. The discussion explores the stability and sustainability of journal indexing through coverage duration indicators, highlighting that Open Access (OA) journals generally exhibit better stability than non-OA journals. Additionally, the dynamics of journal evolution and turnover are analyzed, revealing significant trends in the growth and decline of indexed journals. Regional disparities in journal indexing are also underscored, emphasizing the need for balanced global research representation. The broader implications include democratizing knowledge, accelerating scientific progress, reshaping academic careers, and promoting global research equity. The conclusion calls for collaboration with ethicists, policymakers, and community leaders to develop comprehensive, equitable, and impactful metrics that address societal needs and uphold ethical standards.
PROFESSOR VIVEK KUMAR SINGH
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Delhi, Delhi – 110007, India
https://viveksingh.in/
About Prof Vivek Kumar Singh
Dr Vivek Kumar Singh is a Professor & Head of the Department of Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Prior to this, he was a Professor & Head of Department of Computer Science at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He is active in research and has published about 165 research papers with more than 4000 citations, obtained ten extramural research projects (total funding more than Rs 6.00 Crore INR) and supervised 17 doctoral and more than 100 master theses. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM and a Life member of CSI, IETE and ISSI. He has also been elected as a Board Member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) for 2023-2027. More details about the speaker can be found at: www.viveksingh.in
Title and abstract:
Institutional Research Expertise and Diversity Assessments through Novel Indicators
During the last several decades, various indicators and proxies to measure research output and their impact for different units have been proposed. These measurements may target individuals, institutions, journals, countries, etc. Institutional-level assessment is one such area that has always been and will remain a key challenge to many stakeholders. Various international rankings and bibliometric indicators have been explored in the context of institutional assessments, though each has certain associated criticisms. Most of the existing indicators, including h-type indicators, mainly focus on research output and/ or citations to the research output. They need to reveal the expertise of institutions in different subject areas, which is crucial to know the research portfolio of an institution. Our team has introduced a set of expertise measures such as x and x(g) to determine institutions’ expertise concerning a specific discipline/field, considering strengths in different finer-level thematic areas of that discipline/field. Subsequently, an adaptation of the x-index was proposed to determine the overall scholarly expertise of an institution considering its publication pattern and strength in different coarse thematic areas. This indicator helps to identify the core expertise areas and the diversity of the institution’s research portfolio, which in turn can be useful for various purposes ranging from institutional benchmarking to thrust area-based research funding decisions.
References:
- Nandy, A., Lathabai, H. H., & Singh, V. K. (2024). Xd-index and its variants: a set of overall scholarly expertise diversity indices for the research portfolio management of institutions. Scientometrics, 1-26.
- Nandy, A., Lathabai, H. H., & Singh, V. K. (2023). An Expertise-based Framework for Research Portfolio Management of Institutions at coarse-and fine-grained levels. In 27th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2023). International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators.
- Lathabai, H. H., Nandy, A., & Singh, V. K. (2022). Institutional collaboration recommendation: An expertise-based framework using NLP and network analysis. Expert Systems with Applications, 209, 118317
- Lathabai, H. H., Nandy, A., & Singh, V. K. (2021). x-index: Identifying core competency and thematic research strengths of institutions using an NLP and network based ranking framework. Scientometrics, 126(12), 9557-9583.
Dr. Yu Yu12, PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD AQEEL ASHRAF11
- Contrimetrics Data Center, CBD Perdana 3, Persiaran, Lingkaran Cyber Point Timur, Cyber 12,
63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia - Shenzhen Ruijin Yimei Technology Service Co., LTD
- Faculty of Engineering, Multimedia University 63100 Cyberjaya, Malaysia
TITLE OF THE TALK : DO CONTIMETRICS POINT TO THE BROADER IMPACT OF RESEARCH? AN OVERVIEW OF BENEFITS AND SCOPE OF CONTRIMETRICS
Abstract
Considering the 21st-century digital environment in which “the growing pervasiveness of the Web is creating an environment in which scholars and other users create new kinds of tracks that reveal once-invisible scholarly activities. Today, it is not clear how the impact of research on other areas of society than science should be measured. While peer review and bibliometrics have become standard methods for measuring the impact of research in science, there is not yet an accepted framework within which to measure societal impact. Contrimetrics are considered an interesting option for assessing the societal impact of research, as they offer new ways to measure (public) engagement with research output. Contrary to traditional, citation-based metrics, contrimetrics derived from Contribution Metric. This new field has the ambitious goal of providing a newly enhanced tool of traditional citation metrics by measuring scholarly interactions taking place mainly in the social media, news media, policy documents, and so on. While cotrimetrics refers both the actual metrics that are being analyzed and to the research area that is concerned with analyzing these new web-based metrics. contrimetrics obtain data from many different sources and gather metrics for such digital artifacts as articles, blog posts, book chapters, books, cases, clinical trials, conference papers, datasets, figures, grants, interviews, letters, media, patents, posters, presentations, source code, theses/dissertations, videos, and even web pages. It is also demonstrated by a specific indicator called Article Citation Contribution Indicator (ACCI). The ACCl value is one of the article level metrics and calculated with the journal impact factor of each journal as the benchmark. Contrimetric Plug-in is an invaluable research insights tool designed to serve the academic community. It offers a convenient and free tool for researchers and academic institutions to showcase citations and recommend relevant research articles tailored to the interests and needs of readers. By providing easy access to these selected resources, Contrimetric Plug-in aims to streamline the process of literature review and keep scholars updated on the latest developments in their respective fields. This plugin can help journals increase their visits and clicks, thereby promoting more citation conversions. It also assists the editorial teams with data monitoring and analysis, enabling publishers to better manage their journals. As competition among academic journals becomes increasingly fierce, many journals are beginning to rely on third-party tools to enhance their influence within their field and in the academic community. In short, Contrimretrics differs from traditional research metrics in several ways among which two deserve the most emphasis: first is that data on contrimetrics is available almost immediately after publication of an item online while in traditional bibliometrics are not measured until a sufficient time period until scholars formally cite the article in subsequent works. The second point to emphasize is that Contrimetrics measures “attention” rather than “intention.” Cntrimetrcis are increasingly catching the attention of librarians, faculty, and students in all disciplines as the Internet is becoming more and more popular as a channel for scholarly communication.