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Metrics for openness
Author(s) -
Nichols David M.,
Twidale Michael B.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23741
Subject(s) - openness to experience , computer science , citation , data science , open research , scholarly communication , information retrieval , citation analysis , world wide web , knowledge management , political science , psychology , social psychology , publishing , law
The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation‐based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research. We discuss measures to represent the public availability of articles along with their archival location, licenses, access costs, and supporting information. Calculations illustrating these new metrics are presented using the authors’ publications. We argue that explicit measurement of openness is necessary for a holistic description of research outputs.