Bibliometrics & Research Impact

Date: February 12, 2026 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET Registration Join the Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice for the first in a new series of informal Coffee Talks—casual, drop-in conversations where members can grab a coffee, connect with colleagues, and compare notes on shared questions and emerging practices. Each session will begin with a guest […]

Date: February 5, 2026 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET Registration The Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice invites you to its February community call on the topic of trust, mistrust, and manipulation of open science research. We must confront some uncomfortable situations. Openness does not necessarily equate to trust, and the ideals of open research do […]

Date: December 2, 2025 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET Registration The Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice (BRI CoP) invites you to join a panel discussion on ORCID adoption and integration across Canadian research institutions. This session will explore strategies, tools, and challenges for maximizing ORCID’s potential to improve researcher visibility and data interoperability. Toby Malone, Research Impact […]

Date: October 23, 2025 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET Registration In this session, Jack Young (Research Impact Librarian, McMaster University) and Kelvin Lee (Research Software Developer, McMaster University) will explore how institutions can leverage Article Processing Charge (APC) data from the OpenAlex database to better understand and manage open access publishing costs. They will discuss the value of APC […]

Date: June 19, 2025 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET Registration There is a global effort to evaluate research in a more responsible manner, and Canada is no exception. Several Canadian institutions have recently signed on to DORA, the Declaration on Research Assessment. But what does it take to actually implement DORA-aligned practices in a Canadian research context? […]

Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Registration Join the CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice for a presentation and discussion on OpenAlex for Research Analytics with invited speaker Kyle Demes. Institutions of all shapes and sizes rely on data about the activities, outputs, and impacts of their researchers, as well as those at other […]

Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET Registration Join the CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice for a presentation and discussion on A Dataset and Bibliometric Approach to Estimating Annual Article Processing Charges for Six Scholarly Publishers. The author-pays model, in which publishers charge authors an article processing charge (APC) […]

Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Registration We invite those across Canada interested in bibliometrics and research impact indicators to join this month’s call of the CARL Canadian Bibliometrics and Research Impact (BRI) Community of Practice.  This month we are being joined by several of our colleagues for a series […]

Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Registration We invite those across Canada interested in bibliometrics and research impact indicators to join this month’s call of the CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact (BRI) Community of Practice for a session on Enhancing Citation Integrity through Bibliometrics. In the ever-changing world of scholarly […]