New Tools for Measuring Global Academic Performance

Z factor: a new index for measuring academic research output

With rapid progress in scientific research activities and growing competition for funding resources, it becomes critical to effectively evaluate an individual researcher's annual academic performance, or their cumulative performance within the last 3-5 years. It is particularly important for young independent investigators, and is also useful for funding agencies when determining the productivi...

Tools and Techniques for Measuring and Improving Grid Performance

Measuring the performance of academic libraries in Finland

Are new metrics pushing out traditional measurement tools of academic communications and scholarship?

Introduction: Universities are the centers of interactions and communications and a basic of scientific products and publications in the country. Scientific production and publications are surveyed and evaluated for various reasons. Evaluation criteria with regard to the location, type and circumstances are different and are occasionally changed and new. In this study, we survey the new metrics...

Multiactor global funds: New tools to address urgent global problems

Multiactor global funds (MGFs) are emerging as important new mechanisms for the financing of development and other global priorities. MGFs like the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are distinctive because they are administered and financed by multiactor coalitions of governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society, they operate independently of any o...