Weekly Twitter Activity 2012-09-07

Weekly Twitter Activity (2012-09-01 – 2012-09-07)

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  1. I’ve used all the above citation trciakng services except Microsoft’s offering, which I hadn’t heard of until now. My experience is that ResearcherID is that it is similar to Google Scholar Citations in terms of (limited) functionality, but tends to load more slowly it must be hard to beat Google in those stakes. Web of Knowledge, on which ResearcherID is based, can be used to keep track of one’s own citations and metrics with saved searches, but lacks the public visibility. Scopus has a lot of features, but like Web of Knowledge it is not an open platform, and my use of it is tied to my institutional subscription. It is also possible to easily track other author’s citations/metrics on Scopus, without them having to create or curate a profile.In summary, each of these services has its advantages and disadvantages. An open standard for publication trciakng with freely available data and an API would provide benefits, but I’d also like to see what these multiple front-ends to the research literature can produce in terms of features and useability. They have been, and are, evolving, and I expect that should bring benefits to researchers.

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