Barcelona (E), February 2016 - The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Library has developed an internal management and consultation database of bibliometric information called bibliometrics. This tool stores the UOC's scientific articles (originals, reviews, proceedings papers, editorial materials, book reviews, letters) and enables users to analyse quality based on international and national bibliometric indicators.
The tool is now in the beta phase, which means that the UOC Library is currently still working on validating, loading and cleaning the data. The tool interface displays the data by organization (research centre, research group, authors, publications, and citations received) and, on the bibliometric level, in four indicator levels:
What does bibliometrics offer users?
a) Quality and standardized bibliographical and bibliometric information by researcher, research group, research centre, UOC faculty, field of knowledge, or the UOC as a whole. The tool enables users to search by applying different filters to extract data according to their needs.
b) Comparative bibliometric analysis between researchers, research groups, research centres, and UOC faculties.
c) Extracting data in different export formats:
The bibliographical data that feed bibliometrics is extracted from the validated entries in the Researcher Portal (GIR) and the ISI WOS and Scopus databases.
On the bibliometric level, each article is assigned the international and national bibliometric indicators that apply to it, according to the journal where it was published or the citations received.
The bibliometrics tool was presented at the Internet Librarian International 2015 Conference in London.
