Harnad Keynote, Leiden Sep 3: Open Research Metrics and the OA Advantage

As the peer-reviewed research literature becomes openly accessible online (and scholarly/scientific books, too, become increasingly data-mineable online) the era of open research metrics is approaching. Download and citation analyses are just the beginning. Scientometrics will also include semiometrics, derived from full-text data-mining, and chronometrics will track, analyze and project metrics across time. The database is still too sparse, however, so existing metrics need to be used as an incentive to researchers (and their institutions and funders) to provide the missing open access content (80%). I will present data on the open access citation advantage as well as methodological recommendations for validating metrics.