CFP: Serials Review Special Issue on Metrics for Scholarly Communication

Call for Proposals for Serials Review Special Issue on Metrics for Scholarly Communication. Please consider submitting a proposal! Meg Mering

The IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section is sponsoring a special issue of Serials Review devoted to Metrics for Scholarly Communication. Both research papers and papers on best practices are welcome, as well as opinion papers and research-in-progress.

 

Ongoing developments in scholarly communication have brought a need to adapt how we measure it – whether that means using traditional metrics (e.g., bibliometrics) in new ways or pursuing other types of metrics (e.g., infometrics, altmetrics). Papers dealing with any aspect of metrics for scholarly communication are welcome. Some suggested topics include but are not limited to:

• Repository metrics
• Relationship of open access to citation rates of published works
• Libraries’ promotion of researchers’ unique identifiers and the impact on publications’ visibility and citation rates.
• Scientometric evaluation of citation rates
• Metrics related to selection and evaluation of database and subscription packages
• Bibliometric monitoring of periodicals published by universities to evaluate the prospects for indexing (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus)
• Library practice of metrics for selection and evaluation of the most influential serials for research publications

 

The fundamental goal of the papers in this special issue is that they be applicable to library activities and consider metrics related to scholarly communication.

Written proposals should include the following information and are due September 20, 2021:

• Name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s
• Proposed title of the article
• Proposed abstract of the article (no more than 500 words)
• Brief biographical information of all author(s)
• Contact information, including email, of all author(s) 

The project committee will respond to proposals by October 20, 2021 and completed articles will be due January 14, 2022.

Please send your proposal to Meg Mering at mmering1@unl.edu by October 4, 2021

Meg Mering

Professor
Metadata Quality Librarian
Scholarly Communications Unit
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries