MESUR: science maps and rankings from large-scale usage data

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The MESUR project studies science from large-scale usage data collected from some of the world's most signficant publishers, aggregators and university consortia.

Some relevant publications with regards to the services presented on this web site:

  1. Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg,Luis Bettencourt, Ryan Chute, Marko A. Rodriguez, Lyudmila Balakireva. Clickstream data yields high-resolution maps of science. Clickstream data yields high-resolution maps of science. PLoS One, February 2009.
  2. Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Luda Balakireva and Ryan Chute. A ranking and exploration service based on large-scale usage data. JCDL 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2008. (best poster award)
  3. Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel and Marko A. Rodriguez. Towards usage-based impact metrics: first results from the MESUR project, JCDL 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2008. (arXiv:0804.3791v1, best paper finalist)
  4. Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. MESUR: implications of usage-based evaluations of scholarly status for open repositories. Open Repositories, Southampton, UK, April, 2008.
  5. Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. Usage Impact Factor: the effects of sample characteristics on usage-based impact metrics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology, 59(1), January 2008, pages 001-014 (cs.DL/0610154).
  6. Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez and Herbert Van de Sompel. MESUR: usage-based metrics of scholarly impact (poster). In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Vancouver, June 2007
  7. Johan Bollen, Marko Rodriguez, Herbert Van de Sompel, Lyudmilla Balakireva, and Aric Hagberg, The Largest Scholarly Semantic Network...Ever (poster). In Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web conference, May 2007. - Note: Best Poster Award!
  8. Marko. A Rodrguez, Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. A Practical Ontology for the Large-Scale Modeling of Scholarly Artifacts and their Usage, In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Vancouver, June 2007
  9. Robert P Dellavalle, Lisa M Schilling, Marko A Rodriguez, Herbert Van de Sompel, and Johan Bollen. Refining Dermatology Journal Impact Factors Using PageRank. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Volume 30(3), pages 1059-1083, August 2007
  10. Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. An architecture for the aggregation and analysis of scholarly usage data. In Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2006), pages 298-307, June 2006.
  11. Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. Mapping the structure of science through usage. Scientometrics, 69(2), 2006 (DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-0151-8).
  12. Johan Bollen, Marko A. Rodriguez, and Herbert Van de Sompel. Journal status. Scientometrics, 69(3), December 2006 (arxiv.org:cs.DL/0601030, DOI: 10.1007/s11192-006-0176-z)
  13. Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Joan Smith, and Rick Luce. Toward alternative metrics of journal impact: a comparison of download and citation data. Information Processing and Management, 41(6):1419-1440, 2005.

Announcement:
MESUR's analysis of more than 39 impact metrics accepted for publication in PLoS ONE (see preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2183)

Press:
The MESUR map of science has received international press attention: New York Times, Seed Magazine, Wired, EOS,

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