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This talk will outline a research design to be used in a study of the Canadian scientific journal ecosystem. This project falls under …

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The concept of burnout syndrome was first established in health sciences literature in 1970. Though now prevalent across fields and …

For more than a decade, altmetrics indicators – metrics of attention to scholarly documents based on their traces in digital …

This talk will discuss some of the arguments forwarded in my upcoming thesis, which uses a bibliometric approach to understand the …

Acknowledging the contributions of university librarians in research is a growing practice. Librarians offer crucial support with the …

The Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), launched in 2020, is named after the Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) journal, the official …

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The Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) initially advocated for a new generation of Open Access (OA) journals that would find …

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Evidence-based practice is an important aspect of health science librarianship. However, good evidence-based practice can only occur if …

Classic approaches to topic models produce clusters of documents using word co-occurrence frequencies. While these approaches are …

Altmetric research is still (for the most part) driven by authors comparing citations and social media event numbers. Social Media …

Scientometric approaches have been proposed as robust and large-scale alternatives to measure the mobility flows of academic …

title: “Use of Bibliometrics and Altmetrics in Research Impact: Assessment of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies” event: QSS talks event_url: location: Rowe 3089 address: street: 6100 University Ave city: Halifax region: NS postcode: ‘B3H 4R2’ country: Canada authors: Philippe Mongeon, Alexandra Yip, Cat Gracey, Ingrid Sketris, and Samuel Stewart tags: [QSS talks] abstract: “We present a case study of the use of bibliometrics and altmetrics to evaluate the output and impact of a research network: the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), a network of pharmacoepidemiologists and other researchers from seven provincial sites, that studies the benefits and risks of drugs post marketing (www.cnodes.ca). CNODES evaluates the impact of its research efforts using an iterative and emergent approach. It uses Canadian and occasionally US and UK population-based administrative and other healthcare data. Research findings are relevant to drug regulators, drug plan managers, clinicians, researchers, and others. Our objective was to use bibliometrics and altmetrics to measure the research output of CNODES and its impact in science and beyond. We examined the characteristics of CNODES authors and publications to highlight the network’s contribution to gender parity, training, and open science. We used OpenAlex (www.openalex.org) to collect metadata for the 115 CNODES publications archived in McGill University’s digital repository (www.escholarship.mcgill.ca) and published between 2011 and 2022. We used all publications (n=236,319) with a citation relationship (citation, co-citation, shared reference) to CNODES work as a benchmark to assess our impact of as measured by citations, as well as mentions in social media, the news, and policy documents collected through the Altmetric API (www.altmetric.com). We analyzed the contribution of women and trainees to CNODES output. This approach using OpenAlex can be used by other researchers to determine the outputs and impacts of their unit’s research.” Talk start and end times. date: ‘2023-06-15T13:00:00Z’ date_end: ‘2023-06-15T14:00:00Z’ all_day: false Do not modify this next line. publishDate: ‘2022-06-15T00:00:00Z’