In September 2018, Lizzie Gadd and Ian Rowlands published the findings from a Lis-Bibliometrics survey of bibliometric practitioners as to how they’d like to see bibliometric and altmetric tools improve. The survey was aimed at starting a dialogue with the supplier community around how these tools might develop to better meet end-user needs.

Katie Evans reflects on how their principles of research assessment and management are being applied at the University of Bath – one year on. What difference does having a responsible metrics statement make? And how do you tell if a statement is doing what you need it to do? We published the University of Bath’s Principles of research assessment and management in March 2017.

Lizzie Gadd and Ian Rowlands report on the Lis-Bibliometrics survey of end-users around how bibliometric and altmetric suppliers might improve their services. It’s fun being on the Lis-Bibliometrics Committee.

Is the best way of incentivising open scholarship to measure it?  Lizzie Gadd is not so sure. There is a lot of talk at the moment about measuring open scholarship as means of incentivising it.

In July the UK’s four higher education funding bodies published the draft submission guidance and panel criteria for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, for consultation before finalising them. Each makes mention of the use of bibliometrics, so I’d recommend reading them to all those involved in the intersection of REF and bibliometrics. As well as these two consultations, there is also a guidance document on environmental indicators.

In light of rumours that only DORA signatories will have access to UKRI funding in future, Lizzie Gadd explains why Loughborough has chosen an alternative path up the ‘responsible metrics mountain’, and why she believes all ‘mountain-climbers’ should be equally supported and rewarded. As one of a small, but seemingly growing, group of UK universities who have given serious thought to signing the San Francisco Declaration on Research

On 26th March 2018, the Lis-Bibliometrics Forum launched a practical course: Statistics for Responsible Metrics aimed to offer a bespoke training that focused exclusively on statistics for bibliometrics.

In this post, Stacy Konkiel (Director of Research Relations at Altmetric, a Digital Science company) summaries feedback of a recently posed question in identifying authors’ genders based upon names listed on ~2,000 journal articles–too large a corpus for manual analysis. Recently on the LIS-Bibliometrics listserv, Ruth Harrison (Imperial College London) posed a question on behalf of a patron who

Lizzie Gadd spent some time with the Research Intelligence Network of the Netherlands, and explains why she’s a little bit in love with the Dutch… A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Amsterdam talking to research evaluation colleagues from across the Netherlands.

Introducing the recently launched The Metrics Toolkit – Stacy Konkiel outlines what it is, why it was created, and how it can be used by practitioners working in research impact management. In January, The Metrics Toolkit launched to much interest from academics in the US and UK. The Metrics Toolkit is an online resource aimed at helping researchers and evaluators understand and responsibly use research metrics like journal acceptance

Katie Evans looks at the wider context of responsible metrics and asks what the ingredients of a culture of responsibility might be. I talk to academics about bibliometrics on an almost daily basis.