This online session will introduce new research staff to the wide range of library services, tools, and resources available to support their research journey. It’s also a great opportunity to explore how SMU Libraries and SMU Researcher Club can best meet your needs.

In this talk, Euan Adie, managing director of Overton, will explore the Overton web platform and how it can help monitor and improve the impact academic institutions have on public policy, both nationally and internationally.

Impact is subjective and doesn't always lend itself to hard metrics, but Euan will introduce a simple framework - "Goals, Indicators & Stories" - that can help you think about policy impact in a more strategic, systematic way. Finally, he will look ahead at the next few years and discuss what changes AI and new research assessment approaches might have.
 

About the Speaker

Euan is the managing director of Overton, which he founded in 2019. He previously founded and spent six years growing Altmetric, which is now owned by Digital Science, and before that worked at Nature Publishing Group and as a researcher in medical genetics (despite not knowing how to hold a pipette properly) at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Karaganis will introduce Open Syllabus, a global non-profit archive that collects syllabi from thousands of colleges and universities, maps the curriculum, and builds tools to make that data useful to students and educators.  Karaganis will talk about Open Syllabus's role in developing teaching-based altmetrics for faculty, tools for curricular design, and resources to support student mobility.
 

About the Speaker

Joe Karaganis is the Director of Open Syllabus, a nonprofit curricular archive devoted to mapping the main activity of higher education: teaching. He has also published on a range of topics in information policy and knowledge management, including Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (MIT 2018)

Institutional evaluations have traditionally been limited in that their assessment of research impact via citations received has relied on a simple count of citations. In this talk, Sean C. Rife, PhD, co-founder of Scite, and a Professor of Psychology at Murray State University, will present a new approach to rankings that incorporates the content of citations using Scite's data, which classifies citations as supporting, mentioning, or contrasting.

Sean will outline the process of collecting citation data, classifying citations, tying published works to institutions, and how these data are used to compute a content-weighted impact score for institutions that incorporates both the volume of citations received as well as the number of supporting and contrasting citations received. Examples from Scite's rankings report for institutions and journals will be included, and limitations will be discussed.
 

About the Speaker

Sean C. Rife, PhD is a co-founder of Scite, and a Professor of Psychology at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, USA. His research and teaching focuses on moral and political psychology, as well as metascience and the role bibliometrics can play in the reform of scientific institutions. He is Head of Academic Relations at Research Solutions, Inc., Scite’s parent company, where he is heading up their research on entity rankings.

This online session will introduce new research staff to the wide range of library services, tools, and resources available to support their research journey. It’s also a great opportunity to explore how SMU Libraries and SMU Researcher Club can best meet your needs.

This online session will introduce new research staff to the wide range of library services, tools, and resources available to support their research journey. It’s also a great opportunity to explore how SMU Libraries and SMU Researcher Club can best meet your needs.

This online session will introduce new research staff to the wide range of library services, tools, and resources available to support their research journey. It’s also a great opportunity to explore how SMU Libraries and SMU Researcher Club can best meet your needs.

This online session will introduce new research staff to the wide range of library services, tools, and resources available to support their research journey. It’s also a great opportunity to explore how SMU Libraries and SMU Researcher Club can best meet your needs.

This online session will introduce new research staff to the wide range of library services, tools, and resources available to support their research journey. It’s also a great opportunity to explore how SMU Libraries and SMU Researcher Club can best meet your needs.

This online session will introduce new research staff to the wide range of library services, tools, and resources available to support their research journey. It’s also a great opportunity to explore how SMU Libraries and SMU Researcher Club can best meet your needs.