From 19 to 21 June, the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications (OAI8) is being held in Geneva. The first day’s session on research metrics provided a useful overview of new types of measures and the sources of data that ought to be considered for the evaluation of research today.
This article also exists in French ("Les indicateurs bibliométriques et leurs alter-égos, retour sur l’atelier #OAI8 du CERN"), translated by Timothée Froelich.