May
16
Changing the journal impact factor (And Ologeez)
Posted by Jason Hoyt at 17:23 | Filed In Ologeez! News
Recently there was an announcement on TechCrunch that I would be joining Mendeley as the new Research Director . Mendeley co-founder, Victor Henning, asked me to start contributing to Mendeley’s blog right away. I chose to write about journal impact factors, and how using Mendeley can change it for the better. What you get with Mendeley is the ability to track article-level impact in real-time. You can read more about it on Mendeley at Changing the journal impact factor.
I’d like to add my voice of support in encouraging academics and researchers to try out Mendeley for managing all of those PDFs on your hard drive. The fact that it has a desktop software application (Windows, OS X, Linux) means it can become really powerful, much more so than anything that is just Internet-based. In the next release update (due in June), Mendeley will finally be including a PDF reader built right into the software. That means you can read your library without having to open a separate PDF program, a major productivity booster. Rather than go further into the current list of features here, I’ll point you to the tour page.
I’ll also add that there are about 10 full-time engineers working constantly to fix bugs that users report, add new features, and figure out how to make organizing your documents a better experience. The engineering team is growing bigger and bigger every month. Then there is the passionate business team that is getting down into customer feedback and learning what universities want out of the software. At the helm are the same people who helped to build Skype (bought by eBay for $2.6 billion) and Last.fm (bought by CBS). That’s some huge credibility and gives me confidence that these guys know how to build great things. I’m really happy to be joining them.
In a short time, there will be some changes coming to Ologeez that should bring it more into line as a complement to Mendeley.