From: "Oosman, Aalia" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:07:04 +0000

As celebrations for OA continue at the offices of Taylor & Francis, we
have now further analysed over 17,000 responses to the OA survey to
reveal findings in relation to metrics.

Impact Factors vs Article Metrics

Half of the sample survey by Taylor & Francis were asked what they
thought would happen over the next 10 years in relation to metrics,
the other half were questioned about what they would like to happen
over the next 10 years.

Key findings

* The proportion of authors who think Impact Factors will still be the
primary metric was higher than the proportion who would like this to
happen.

* The proportion of authors who would like Article Metrics to be given
more importance than Impact Factors in assessing the value of research
was higher than those who think this will be the case.

* The proportion of authors who would like Impact Factors to be used
alongside Article Metrics is the same as the number of authors who
think this will happen.

Subject Variations

Library and Information scholars are the most inclined of any subject
to think Article Metrics will become more important in the next ten
years (41%) and the least inclined to think Impact Factors will
prevail (12%).

Regional Variations

More than 60% of academics based in both Africa and Asia rate the
provision of Article Metrics as 4 or more out of 5 on the importance
scale, and Asian academics are the most likely to have decided
definitively between Article Metrics and Impact Factors.

This bulletin is accompanied by Supplement 6 to the original report –
which examines the subject, regional and country-level variations for
each question regarding authors’ attitudes to metrics in full:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/open-access-survey-supp6.pdf

The basic results from the full survey and a copy of the questionnaire
can be found here and is available under a Creative Commons
Attribution licence:
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/open-access-survey-march2013.pdf

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For more information, please contact:
Aalia Oosman, Library Marketing & Communications Manager
Taylor & Francis Group Journals
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http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey