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New metric ‘leverages opinions of 8,000 experts’
Faculty Opinions has introduced a metric in the research evaluation landscape, leveraging the opinions of more than 8,000 experts. The Faculty Opinions Score is designed
to be an early indicator of an article’s future impact and a mark of research quality. The company describes the implications for researchers, academic institutions and funding bodies as ‘promising’. Tiago Barros, managing director of
Faculty Opinions, said: ‘The vision behind Faculty Opinions has always been to offer fairer and more transparent evaluation at article level, and to shift an over-reliance on flawed citation metrics towards greater use of transparent expert opinion. ‘We are delighted to introduce the
new Faculty Opinions Score, which combines the predictive power of our expert recommendations with an article’s bibliometric performance.’ With more than 20 years’ of opinion,
comprising more than 230,000 recommendations shared by Faculty Opinions, the company’s analysis says the recommendations are a strong predictor
of articles that will ultimately be highly cited and have significant impact. Data scientist Matias Rodriguez, who led the development of the Score, said: ‘The Faculty Opinions Score assigns a numerical value to research publications in biology and medicine, aimed at quantifying their impact and quality compared to
Jisc/Taylor & Francis deal 'truly transformative'
Taylor & Francis Group and Jisc have signed a three- year transitional agreement combining access and open access publishing to Taylor & Francis Group’s portfolio of journals. The agreement provides
participating Jisc members with an OA allowance that covers 100 per cent of the current UK research Taylor & Francis Group has been publishing on a subscription basis.
As the largest humanities
and social sciences (HSS) publisher, publishing 9 per cent of UK research, the deal is particularly important as a route to OA for HSS researchers who do not regularly benefit from the same funding as their peers in science, technology and medicine (STM) disciplines. The partnership recognises
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the goals of research funders and Jisc to transform access to UK research output, so the impact derived from research can be increased. Researchers will be provided with frictionless OA publishing at no cost to them, with a streamlined and optimised workflow. To ensure that the deal continues to reflect researchers’ needs over time, participating members are invited to sign up for an initial three-year period, with an option to extend by two years. Annie Callanan, CEO of
Taylor & Francis, said: 'We are delighted to be working with Jisc and UK universities to advance open research in the UK. This deal provides author choice across the spectrum of journals published by Taylor & Francis Group, and underscores the commitment to supporting
UK research excellence and impact. Beyond this deal, we are keen to explore ways to work collaboratively with Jisc to encourage good open research practices: whether that be via a traditional journal article in front of the paywall, through to sharing all research data, methodologies and associated research. This deal is the first step on that path.’ Anna Vernon, Jisc’s head of
licensing, said: ‘This agreement is a vital step towards making OA the default for UK research, and we are very pleased to open up publishing opportunities to all Taylor & Francis Group journals. We are delighted that the agreement limits costs to subscription expenditure only.’ The deal includes:
• OA publishing for UK authors, up to an agreed cap, in Taylor & Francis Open
Select journals, on a first- come first-served basis, at no cost to the author;
• Reading access to subscription content based on current holdings; and
• Provision of fully integrated library and author OA infrastructure to ensure smooth implementation and workflow, including the Taylor & Francis Research Dashboard, allowing participating members to monitor their institution’s OA output simply and effectively.
Christoph Chesher, chief commercial officer at Taylor & Francis, said: ‘The agreement is part of Taylor & Francis’ wider commitment to open research and will accelerate OA transition in the UK. We look forward to working with Jisc in supporting the needs of UK researchers.’
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other publications in their field. ‘The Faculty Opinions Score is derived
by combining our unique star-rated recommendations on individual articles, made by world-leading experts, with bibliometrics to produce a radically new metric in the research evaluation landscape.’
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